LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award to Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
ABOUT 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th July, 1961, a girl who was swim- ming was seen to be in difficulties near the slipway which is used for launching the Appledore boarding boat. There was a slight, variable breeze and a calm sea. It was...
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When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...
Golden Charter
You plan for things that might happen.
GOLDEN CHARTER X Pre-Paid Funeral Plans How about planning for something that definitely will? THERE COMES A TIME in life when it's natural to consider your own funeral...and to...
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Dagon
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 8th September the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Dundonnie Head, about one mile south of Buchan-ness lighthouse.
A moderate south gale was blowing, with a...
Yacht We're Here
The cutter-yacht We're Here, of Burnham-ou-Crouch, was in grave peril of being lost on the Castle Rocks, Hastings, in the early morning of the 19th August. The yacht, with the owner, his wife, man, and two dogs on board, left Folkestone...
Proba
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...
An Aeroplane (80)
OCTOBER 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 6.49 A.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two miles east of Sheringham, and a few minutes later the coastguard rang up again to say that he...
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet (1)
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
Heroine
APPLEDORE, DEVON. — On the 24th March, at about 1.15 P.M., a schooner was observed running for Bideford Harbour.
The wind was then blowing a gale from the N., with heavy snow squalls. When between the Fairway and Bar buoys...
The Four-Masted Barqe Asnieres
In response to a message received from the Coastguard on the 2nd December, stating that a four-masted barque was ashore and in need of immediate assistance, the Life- boat Bob Newbon was launched. The vessel proved to be the Asnieres, of...