LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Rowing Boats
JULY 20TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. The life-boat crew had assembled to take the life-boat to Dartmouth for the life-boat flag day there, when, at 12.56 in the afternoon, Brixham coastguard reported a small boat in Babbacombe Bay in need of help,...
A Dinghy (1)
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea off Littlestone. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a rough...
Luandia
JOINED BY ABERYSTWYTH IRB The Aberdovey IRB was joined by the Aberystwyth IRB, a shore boat from Borth, and an Outward Bound Sea School boat. They searched the area until 5 o'clock, when the search was abandoned. While the Aberdovey IRB...
An All-Night Service at Selsey
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
Category: Services
Classifieds
Rescue at sea By Clayton Evans Published by Chrysalis Books ISBN 0851779344 Price: £35 Canadian Coast Guard Coxswain Clayton Evans has spent a decade gathering material from all over the world to create this reference and general...
Category: Advertisement
Enfant de Bretagne (1)
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Lord Ammon
Lord Ammon died on the 2nd of April, 1960, at the age of 86. Among the many important posts in public life which he held were those of Chairman of the London County Council and of the National Dock Labour Board. He was a deputy speaker in...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...
Category: Articles
Wiema
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 10th Decem- ber, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wiema of Groningen had developed a heavy list through her cargo...
Marie Flore
MAY 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At about midnight on the 4th May information was received from the Padstow coastguard that a convoy had been attacked from the air about ten miles N. by W. of Stepper Point, and that one of...