LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Southern Star
Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin SandsBoth of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW gale with 14 people on board...
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Clovelly, Devon.—At nine o'clock on the evening of the 6th of December, 1957, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that a child, aged two, was very ill on Lundy Island and that a doctor had asked if the life-boat would take him...
Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a boy was trapped in a cave at Point Giltar. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a moderate sea and a heavy...
Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 15th of March, 1951, the fishing coble Ocean Vanguard was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance, too, and she was unable to get in. So about 11.15 the...
Skjoldborg
Boulmer, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 12th February, 1938, a vessel, which had been under observation, brought up in Alnmouth Bay. A northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The vessel was the auxiliary motor schooner...
A Dinghy
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
Coxswain Blogg's Broadcast.
Coxs vain Heary Blogg broadcast a life-boat appeal us the "Week's Good Cause", in the Home Service of the B.B.C., oa I5th. Mareh. There were 6759 replies amounting to £4,457: 2: i..
Category: Articles
Trawlers Celtia and Toronto
DECEMBER 2ND. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 3.11 A.M. the Kilchoman coastguard reported a vessel ashore in the Sound of Islay. The weather was fine, with a light S.W. wind and a calm sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched...
John Wesley
HARTLEPOOL.—Shortly before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, while a gale from the S.S.E. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the brigantine John, Wesley, of Seaham, bound from Seaham to London with a cargo of...