LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Springtide
Gale search A 999 CALL was received by Hartland Coastguard at 2125 on Saturday April 25 from the owner and skipper of the 55ft auxiliary ketch Springtide. He told them that the yacht had been moored in an exposed position in Ilfracombe...
Petasus and St. Barbara
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen south-east of the coastguard look-out.
At 9.20, when the life-boat Edian...
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
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Index to Advertisers
Arden Yachts Ltd 151 Birds Eye .. .. . . . . . . . . . . .. Inside Back Cover J. Blake & Co. Ltd 152 Brooke Marine Ltd . . . . . . . . . . Outside Back Cover Henry Browne & Son Ltd 114 L. J. Bushnell 114 Coastal Radio Ltd 151...
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June
MAY 31ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Men had been reported aboard an R.A.F. target raft, but they were cormorants which flew away as the life-boat approached. - Rewards, £8 1s.and towed her to a berth in Walton River.
She...
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Airy Fairy, Billy Whizz and Broadaxe
Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...
Bass, Alto and Vivendi
Yachts in distress THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat station was telephoned on the evening of Monday September 3, 1984, to be told by Falmouth coastguard that a red flare had been sighted off Poldhu Cove. The...
Cachalot (2)
Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...
Concerto and Martez (1)
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
Charity Ending at Home. A Service By the Humber Motor Life-Boat
A Service by the Bomber Motor Life-boat.
"From the calamity of shipwreck, no one can say that he may at all times remain free, and whilst he is now providing only for the safety of others, a day may come which will...
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