LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Linda
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, when the life-boat crew were in the boathouse after an exercise, the coxswain received a report from the owner of the fishing boat Linda that he had lent the boat to...
The Rowing Boat
Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.
At...
Glenravil Miner
PORT EYNON, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—On the 22nd March the schooner Glenravil Miner, of Barrow, was observed to miss stays and strand at Over ton Cliffs, a mile and a half west of Port Eynon Point; she was rolling very much and her crew were seen...
Oarsman
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.36 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1959, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that a seaman aboard the tanker Oarsman of London had fallen thirty feet from the mast on to...
Hassel (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
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Peggy
Bridlington,* Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th January the motor fishing boat Peggy left Bridlington harbour to fish about eight miles out.
Later a gale sprang up from the S.S.E.
and the sea became...
A Taxi
Two saved from taxi stranded on causeway West Mersea South East Division West Mersea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat carried out a somewhat unusual rescue on 26 January when she was called to a taxi stranded on the causeway to a nearby island.<...
The Diving Boat Missy
DIVING BOAT TOWED AFTER BEING BEACHED Hastings, Sussex. At 11.10 on the morning of the 26th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the diving boat Missy, on passage from Newhaven to Hastings, had developed a serious...
Sea Sweeper (1)
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...