LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mystery, of Glasgow
Weston-sup&r-Mare, Somerset. — At about 6 P.M. on the 9th December, 1937, the pier-master at Clevedon informed the life-boat station that the Walton Bay coastguard had had a vessel anchored off Hook Buoy under observation since the...
Swordfish
Coverack, Cornwall - At 6.12 p.m. on 3rd September, 1969, the honorary secretary was told that a red flare had been seen about two miles south of Blackhead. Although the coastguards could not confirm this sighting, the life-boat William...
Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
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Avondow
CREW TAKEN OFF At 2.50 p.m. on 9th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground on Boray Holm, Gairsay. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndmanputoutat^.s in a strong south-westerly wind and a rough...
Rose Marie and the William Robert
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 8.25 a.m.
on :8th April, 1967, it was noted that the Sheringham crab boats were at sea and conditions were deteriorating rapidly.
The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows...
J H Minet Life and Pensions Ltd
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A R.A.F. Aeroplane
OCT. 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea, and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and Bideford. A N.E. wind...
An Aeroplane (99)
JULY 24TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 8 A.M. the naval base at Great Yarmouth reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down in the sea E. by S. eleven and a half miles from Cromer. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing and the sea was...
Bounty, of Jersey
FIREMEN TO THE RESCUE WHEN the 25-foot fishing vessel Bounty of Jersey, G.I., with four men aboard, was reported in difficulties at 8.21 p.m. on 24th July, 1970,* off the Rigdon Bank in St. Ouen's Bay, Jersey, the St. Helier life-boat...
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....