LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Fishing Boat (1)
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
A Boat
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
A Small Motor Yacht Heather Bell
During the afternoon of the 15th May the small motor yacht Heather Bell, of Blyth, put to sea from Berwick.
The easterly wind was light, but a heavy swell was breaking on the bar.
Some time later she was...
Wallaroo
Piel (Barrow), Lancashire.—On the 2nd September the yacht Wallaroo, which was pleasure-cruising with five people on board, was overtaken by bad weather. She got into difficulties and was eventually anchored in a dangerous position about two...
The Harbour Motor Boat Duchess of Normandy
St. Helier, Jersey.—About nine o'clock on the evening of the 28th of Septem- ber, 1954, it was reported that the harbour motor boat Duchess of Normandy, which had ten people on board, including a party of workmen, was over- due on a...
A Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 5th of August, 1957, the life-boat Watkin Williams took part in a combined helicopter and life-boat exercise. At the end of the exercise a strong easterly wind sprang up, with a very rough sea, and it was impossible...
Covesea and Ocean Swell
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...
Darlwin (1)
Falmouth, Coverack, Fowey, Cornwall and Salcombe Devon - At 5.37 a.m. on ist August, 1966, the Coastguard requested the Falmouth coxswain to launch the life-boat to search for the motor cruiser Darlwin which had been reported overdue. The...
Atlantic Coast
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 8.15 on the evening of the 7th July, 1961, the Chief Constable of Yar- mouth asked for the life-boat to meet a ship in the Yarmouth roads and collect a body which had been picked up about five...
The Admiralty Drifter Eminent
A DEPLOBABIE accident, which resulted j in the loss of two lives, occurred at; Fraserburgh, oa the 28th April. The j Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left: Buryhead the previous night, bound for j Fraserburgh to be " demobilised,"...