LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Lifeboat crew help in dinghy tragedy Arranmore Ireland Division Arranmore lifeboat station has received a letter congratulating everyone involved for their conduct in a tragic incident on 29 July 1989 in which four young people lost their...
Venture
Blyth, Northumberland. At 7.15 on the evening of the 19th May, 1961, during an exercise launch of the life- boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station, it was noticed thatthe fishing vessel Venture had broken down south-east...
Intrepid
MARGATE.—Signals were shown by a vessel in Margate Roads, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, with rain, on the 3rd August. The Lifeboat Civil Service, No. 1, was launched at 11.40 P.M...
Shoreline
TO MAKE A CHANGE from the usual Shoreline page, I have asked Linda Grainger, one of my assistants, to write about the work of herself and her colleagues.
First of all, however, I am pleased to announce that RNLB Shoreline...
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Tilaer
Poole, Dorset - At 2.5 p.m. on 3rd November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties two miles east by south of Bournemouth pier. The life-boat crew were asked to stand by. At 3.30, as...
The Ex-Naval Cutter Overdraft II
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...
Aubie
Crew member swims to stranded yacht Wells' Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill was called to the aid of a 28ft yacht which was stranded on Blakeney Point on 31 July 1993, rescuing the yacht the two adults and two children on...
William of, Londonderry
On the 1st March the brigantine William, of Londonderry, was seen driving into Dun- drum Bay, during a strong S.S.E. wind.
She had her foremast carried away by the deck, and was waterlogged. The Life-boat Reigate was...
Minuet
Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...
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FATHER AND SON At 5.25 p.m. on 5th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boy was reported to be stranded on Renney rocks but that further investigation was necessary. At 5.36 the message was confirmed. It was one hour...