LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Stranded under cliffs BRIXHAM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Torbay lifeboat station at 1431 on Monday, August 23, 1976, that survivors from a wrecked speedboat were stranded on a beach at Forest Cove under overhanging...
Malvoisin
Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 18th March a telephone message was received by the Harwich Coastguard reporting that a vessel, with her sails blown away, was driving east of Woodbridge Haven, and showing signals of distress. The steam Life-...
Solveig
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1960, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched on exercise in a light westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was half ebb. Soon after the life-boat had...
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DOCTOR TAKEN TO FRENCH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 6th November, 1962, the honorary secretary received a telegram stating that the 37,000 ton tanker Esso Parentis, of Le Havre, had asked for a doctor. At 6.5...
A Fishing Vessel
Man unconscious A STRONG south-westerly breeze, force 6, was blowing on the afternoon of Wednesday July 17, 1985, when New Quay's (Dyfed) 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Birds Eye, launched after the coastguard had reported a fishing vessel...
Elm Grove
Buckie, Banffshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of Febru- ary, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Wick radio had received a message from the motor fishing boat Elm Grove, of Buckie, that a fisherman...
Speedwell
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing white light had been seen four miles west-north-west of Aberystwyth. The honorary secretary went...
A Skiff
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1959, a man informed the coxswain that his son and a friend had put out to fish in his skiff against his advice and that he was worried about their safety...
Pleasant Mirth
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 11.50 on the night of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man living in Marston had reported that a yacht appeared to be in a very dangerous position off Blakeney Point. The...
A Boat (2)
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 26th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with three anglers on board was in difficulties about half a mile off the entrance to Rhyl harbour...