LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Robin Hood
WINTERTON.—The Wold Light-vessel fired rockets and guns on the morning of the 7th February, in response to which the Life-boat Margaret put off at 4,25, went to the Middle Hasborough Sand, and searched the sand, but could not findany vessel....
Ethel
On the 16th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from S. by W. with a rough sea, the trawler Ethel, of Great Yarmouth, anchored about 1J miles N.
of the harbour awaiting the tide. When the flood tide had made she got...
A Dinghy
Workington, Cumberland - At 8.39 p.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received reports of a small boat flashing a white light about one and a half miles off Harrington. The signal appeared...
A Dinghy (2)
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1958, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Lade. One of the men was waving a red handkerchief attachedto a paddle. Five...
Glencoy
COASTER ON ROCKS At 7.32 p.m. on the i6th February, 1965 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Glencoy had gone ashore and needed assistance. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbon No. 3 was launched at 8.5 in a light...
Nore Vienna
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.42 p.m. on lyth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British ship Clangula had taken the schooner Nore Vienna, which had her sails blown away, in tow eight miles south of the Nab...
Two Yachts
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was apparentlyin trouble and was drifting towards Pendine. Someone on board was waving a shirt. The...
Beeleigh
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 4.35 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Helford river area. At 5.10,when the life-boat Crawford and Con- stance Conybeare slipped...
New Life-Boats Named In Norfolk and Devon
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, the President of the Institution, named the new Sheringham life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows at a ceremony at Shering- ham on the 15th June, 1962. The bulk of the money for the...
Category: Inaugurations
None (2)
PILOT BALED OUT Workington, Cumberland. At 1.48 p.m. on 22nd July, 1965, the Workington coastguard was told by the coastguard at Formby that the pilot of a Lightning aircraft had baled out twelve miles west of St. Bees Head. At 2.6 the...