LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...
Dixy Porr
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 1.30 on the -afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was stranded near the Shiant Isles. The life-boat James and Margaret Boyd put out at 1.50 in a calm...
Two Sailing Dinghies
Swanage, Dorset, At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of May, 1960, two sailing dinghies, one fitted with an outboard motor and each with two people on board, left Swanage Bay for Ringstead Bay near Weymouth. The dinghies belonged to the...
Duke visits life-boats
The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
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Aeolian
StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...
A Rowing Dinghy
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...
Cameo
YACHTMEN'S FRANTIC SIGNALS Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1 Ithof August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the crew of a yacht four to five miles south-south-east of Newhaven were waving...
William and Edwin
YACHT WAS FOUND At 5.18 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Jury's Gap, Dungeness. The sea was moderate with a corresponding south-westerly breeze. It was almost low...
A Sailing Dinghy, Yacht and Saturn
Eastney, Hampshire. At 2.50 p.m.
on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a yacht had capsized three miles south-west of the station. At 3 o'clock the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh...
Cygnus
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th July, 1967, a message was received that a i7-foot cabin cruiser which had been taken from her moorings during theprevious night had been sighted with a youth on board three miles...