LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plover
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN FOG Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.20 on the evening of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that men working on the sea defences near the Buckle Inn had heard cries for help coming from...
Dainty
FIRST SERVICE CALL TO NEW IRISH LIFEBOAT Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, a report was received that spectators at the Howth sailing club regatta had seen a yacht in distress. There was a strong ebb tide...
Linda
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 1st November, 1961, a relative of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Linda informed the honorary secretary that the vessel was overdue and asked for the life-boat...
Dinghies
Swanage, Dorset - At 12.25 p.m. on 25th April, 1970, it was learnt that two dinghies of a visiting youth club association had capsized threequarters of a mile north east of Swanage pier and were being carried out to sea rapidly. At 12.34 the...
Ceremonies
Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
Category: Inaugurations
Norman
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About nine hi the night, on the 13th of August, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that a resident had reported a yacht on the Pye Sands.
Later it was learned that the auxiliary...
Waterwitch
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. —At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht to the south-east of Aldeburgh, with only one man aboard, was making heavy weather, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Lucy...
A Cabin Cruiser
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coast- guard saw a cabin-cruiser drifting towards the rocks about two miles south of Berwick. At 5.10 the life- boat...
Two Small Boats
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.—During the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1953, a fishing competition was held in Llandudno Bay, but the weather deteriorated and all but two of the small boats returned to the shore.
About 3...
Jenny Jones of Barmouth
On the 24th March, the smack Jenny Jones, of Barmouth, was observed in a dangerous posi- tion, with signals of distress flying, in Porth- dinllaen Bay, during a gale of wind from N.W. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was quickly launched, and...