LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghies and Segel
DINGHIES IN TROUBLE At 11.50 a.m. on 7th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three sailing dinghies had capsized seaward of the harbour and, with about 20 dinghies in the area, the safety boat escorting them would be...
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Angus Rose and Mizpah (1)
Montrose, Angus, and Anstruther, Fifeshlre.—On the afternoon of the 9th of February, 1953, a wireless message reached the Montrose life-boat station from the fishing boat Angus Rose, which had a crew of two, that she had lost her rudder, but...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain George Tart of Dungeness. He was appointed coxswain in July 1947.
Since then Dungeness life-boats have been launched on service 97 times and have rescued 27 lives..
Category: Articles
SURFER TRAPPED IN RIP
BANTHAM | 4 MAY
Lifeguards at Bantham, Devon, were among the first to start their patrols this year, and they were called into action on 4 May when a surfer was caught in a rip current. Two lifeguards...
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Rhyl: PRESTATYN WOMEN DELIVER SUPPORT
Women from Prestatyn Inner Wheel visited Rhyl Lifeboat Station to deliver a considerable donation to their lifeboat appeal, after former Coxswain Peter Robinson gave them a talk about the station’s history.
The women enjoyed a...
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Torbay, Devon. At 8.5 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was trapped on the side of a cliff at Berry Head and that coastguards with rescue apparatus were searching for him....
Jeanne Gougy
TWELVE MEN LOST FROM FRENCH TRAWLER Sennen Cove, and Penlee, Cornwall.
At 5.21 on the morning of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Sennen Cove life-boat that a vessel was ashore on the...
Two Yachts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.5 oil the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the Wallasey Ya;ht Club that two yachts had capsized half a mile north-west of Rock Light. Ten minutes later the...
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Douglas, Isle of Man. At 9.25 p.m.
on loth May, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a young boy had fallen over the cliffs near the lower field of Ballavarane Farm, Lonan. The cliffs at that point are...