LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht and a Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.45 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1957, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing boat had capsized off the mouth of the river Axe and was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was...
Boy Pat and Nellie
Islay, Inner Hebrides, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of the 13th of August, 1948, the Kil- choman coastguard telephoned that a vessel about three miles north-north- west of Coul Point had made flares, and at 6.15 the...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
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Sharon (1)
Minehead, Somerset, and Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly-At 12.50 a.m. on 24th September, 1967, it was learnt that a youth had taken out a yacht which was now drifting out to sea. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 1.12 in a light variable...
Scarthoe
Tynemonth, Northumberland - At 8.45 p.m. on 18th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Scarthoe had grounded in the Tyne estuary in thick fog. Her crew were preparing to abandon ship. The...
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Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...
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FOUR BOYS FOUND CUT OFF BY TIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.22 on the night of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were missing from a camp at Culver and that it was thought they might have...
Tango
TOW FOR YACHT WITH SAILS BLOWN AWAY Selsey, Sussex. At 7.5 on the evening of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board, which was close inshore off Elmer Sands, was...
Sadikzade and Carmen
TURKISH AND PANAMANIAN VESSELS IN COLLISION Dover, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 13th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there had been a collision between the motor vessel Sadikzade of Turkey and the motor...
Souris
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...