LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dorothy
On the night of the 20th October the fishing boat Wenden came in and reported that the motor fishing boat Dorothy was in trouble off Berry Head, with her propeller fouled by nets. Her two occupants had asked for the motor trawler Cygnet to...
ND De Lourdes
About 12.15 P.M.
on the 13th February distress signals were reported from the Princess light- vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was launched and proceeded to the " Shingles," where the ketch ND. de...
Letters
It is a comfort to know . . .
On Sunday October 22, I was a guest aboard Yarmouth lifeboat when she was required to answer the tragic call in Christchurch Bay. Although the sea was quiet at the time, I must say that I was...
Category: Correspondence
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
Mikasa
At 1 A.M.
on the Hth January, Coxswain John Crocombe, received a message from the Coast-guard Station stating that inform- ation had been received by telephone to the effect that a vessel was firing signals of distress in...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 2.11 on the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Buckmere River and that one of her crew had swum ashore and the second was in the water....
Ocean Queen
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 16th of July, 1959, the owner of the fishing vessel Ocean Queen told the honorary secretary that his vessel, which had a crew of two, was in difficulties four and a half miles north-...
Book reviews
Survival skills, intrepid explorations and coastal cruises – get ready for an adventure this spring
The Cape Horner’s Club: Tales of Triumph and Disaster at the World’s Most Feared Cape by Adrian Flanagan
Category: Articles
Gypsy
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the steamer Catherine Hawksfield, on passage from the Tyne to Dover, picked up the motor boat Gypsy, sixteen to twenty miles S.E.
of Hartlepool. The Gypsy was towing the...
Gladina
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.0 on the evening of the 13th of May, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser seemed to have broken down about one mile south-west of Berry Head. Later she was seen to get under way, but at 8.42 the...