LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dinghies
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 2 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, news wasreceived that the local sailing club's rescue boats might not be able to cope if the sudden squall which had capsized 21 dinghies in the harbour got any worse.
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Comfort
FISHING BOAT AGROUND Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1947, a fisherman reported that a boat was aground on Salt Stones Reef about half a mile from the harbour entrance, and the motor life-boat...
A Motor Boat
MOTOR BOAT TOWED IN DENSE FOG Walmer, Kent. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that shouts for help had been heard from the promenade from the direction of the sea, and a watchman...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — At 12.10, on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1950, the Bangor coastguard reported that a motor boat was adrift in Donaghadee Sound. Twenty min- utes later the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly was launched, in...
Vixen, of Dublin
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—On the morning of the 2nd June a Coast Life- Saving Service Inspector telephoned that a yacht was in danger off Greystones harbour. She was the Vixen, of Dublin, bound, with her owner on board, for Wicklow. The wind...
Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., of St. David's
IN the New Year's Honours Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, and for twenty-one years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St.
David's, was made...
Category: Articles
Lesal (1)
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At' seven in the evening of Saturday the 17th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that information had been received from the Eastbourne Angling Association that one of their boats, the motor boat Lesal, which...
The S.S. Reina del Pacifico
EXPLOSION ON TRIAL RUN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.5 in the evening of the llth of September, 1947, a message came that the S.S. Reina del Pacifico, of Liverpool, running trials about twelve miles north of the Cope- land Islands, after being...
A Steamer (9)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
A steamer was reported to have been attacked by enemy aeroplanes, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £19 9s. 5d..
None (38)
NOVEMBER 30TH. - WESTON - SUPERMARE, SOMERSET. A man had been reported to have dropped into the sea by parachute, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £10 13s..