LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dover, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 21st August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that six boys were cut off by the tide at East Cliff. The life-boat Faithful Forester, with a dinghy in tow, slipped her moorings at 6.47. It was...
OBITUARY
The death has occurred of Sir Reginald Leeds, Bt., of Paignton, South Devon, who was a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I..
Category: Obituaries
Ros Bui
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1960, a message was received from Valentia radio that the fishing boat Ros Bui was drifting two miles south of Puffin Head and needed immediate help. The life- boat Rowland...
A Yacht (5)
Salcombe, Devon. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties a mile and a half west of Bolt Head. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was...
Madam Moon
Exmouth, Devon. At 7.55 on the even- ing of the 31 st of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen south of Orcombe Point. At 8.20 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan put...
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Dover, Kent. About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th June, 1961, news was received that four soldiers had been cut off by the tide near the South Foreland lighthouse. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea. At 1...
Auspicity
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 8.58 on the morning of the 28th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred between a tanker and a trawler off Point of Ayre. The tanker Auspicity of London had been...
Candourity
STANDING BY MOTOR VESSEL IN GALE Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the master of the motor vessel Candourity of London had asked for the life-boat to stand...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.
At 12.21 p.m. on iyth February, 1964, the coastguard told the Appledore honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea four to seven miles north of Hartland...
A Boat (1)
MAN COLLAPSED At 6.46 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had overturned in moderate seas and a fresh south-westerly breeze off Bowleaze cove. At 7.5 the lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke put...