LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medal for Weymouth
AT the beginning of June the twin-screw motor yacht Mite (a converted naval motor launch 110 feet long) was coming up Channel on her way from Malta to London. On the 6th of June, when she was fifteen miles west of Portland Bill, both her...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats (1)
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 28th September several Scotch fi>hingboats were making for the harbour in moderate gale from the N.E. and a heavy sea. As it was apparent that danger would be incurred by them in entering the harbour the...
Squall and Valerie
Margate, Kent. At 4.26 on the after- noon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Whiteness. There was a moderate north-westerly wind with a rough sea....
Provider (3)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Sandbanks Queen
Poole, Dorset. At 6.45 on the even- ing of the 6th of December, 1959, the police at Poole told the honorary secretary that the motor boat Sand- banks Queen was overdue from a fishing trip in the harbour with nine or ten people on board. The...
Antelope
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, so as to be in readiness should the ser- vices of the boat be required, as the wind was...
Ada
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ada of Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick Rocks three miles north of Boulmer.
The life...
Foremost
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ARBROATH by east of Arbroath, and the motor life- FEBRUARY 9TH. -ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 10.35 in the morning boat John and William Mudie was distress signals were heard south-east launched at once. It was very hazy. A...
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had become disabled when her propeller had fallen off. She had been blown close to some rocks and the lifeboat towed her clear. The two men were then taken aboard the lifeboat and the power boat towed to Girvan. Harbour was reached at 2245...
Category: Services
Thelma
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At half past one in the afternoon on the 17th of December, 1949, the Walton-on- Naze coastguard telephoned that a sailing barge appeared to be in diffi- culties near the Cork Sand and that the Cork Lightvessel was...