LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Apricity
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a vessel north of the harbour was blowing for help. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and there...
Sthoreen
Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress...
Panta-Genesta
Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the mine sweeper H.M.S.
Warsash had asked for the life-boat to meet her at ten o'clock to take...
A Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 2.52 p.m. on 8th May, 1965 the honorary secretary saw a small boat under oars having great difficulty in keeping clear of the rocks off South Shields pier and realized that by trying to keep clear they...
Christina Peter
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 on the even- ing of the 2nd of October, 1952, the Deal coastguard rang up to say a woman had reported that her husband, his friend and a child had put out on a fishing trip in the outboard motor boat Christina Peter,...
Forward
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had reported that her husband and two others had put out in the fishing boat Forward, of Beaumaris, at one o'clock the...
An Aerovan Aeroplane
THREE SEARCHES FOR AN AEROPLANE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 8.12 in the evening of the 27th of June, 1947, the Tara coastguard reported that an Aerovan aeroplane on a flight to New- townards was believed to have crashed one mile east of Craig...
A Smack
Singularly enough, the services of the Life-boat were again called into requisition, after an interval of three days had elapsed, making the third time she had been actively engaged in the course of a week.
A small open,...
Rini
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1956, the lighthouse keeper at Ballinacourty telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the rocks to the east of the lighthouse and that flares had been seen. At nine...
Kite-surfers
Kite-surfers hit by sudden squall Members of the Littlehampton inshore lifeboat crew were called into action in September 2003 when a group of kitesurfers were suddenly swept across the beach and out to sea by strong offshore windsThe alarm...