LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 3rd August the coxswain saw from the North Pier a small rowing boat about a mile out in the direction of the Newcome Sands. The weather was squally, with a W.N.W. wind and a choppy...
L.I. 47
^ Selsey, Sussex.—At about 8.25 A.M.
on the 8th of April the coastguard reported that the fishing boat L.I.47 had capsized about two miles W.S.
W. of Selsey Bill, and that another fishing boat was near -...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 6.30 p.m. on 2nd February, 1970, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a man on Innisbofin island was seriously ill and required hospital treatment on the mainland.
The life-boat...
Roma
Selsey, Sussex.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 9th April the coastguard reported that a motor boat appeared to have broken down two miles S.E. of the coastguard look-out and was drifting west. She was not making signals of distress. At 5.47 P.M. she...
Febo
PENARTH, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—At 1 P.M.
on the 14th October the barque Febo, of Genoa, exhibited signals of distress, having lost her fore and mainmasts, and having parted from three chain cables.
A steam-tug...
Pioneer
Life-boat O.N.803 at Sheerness - At 3.40 p.m. on 22nd February, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized near Minster wartime defence boom.
The life-boati Canadian Pacific slipped her moor...
Norwich Union
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 11.20 p.m. on 7th November, 1965, the assistant honorary secretary received a message from the Smalls lighthouse stating that there was an injured keeper on the lighthouse. After consulting with the...
Broughty Castle
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea was running, the schooner Broughty Castle, of Londonderry, coal laden, from Swansea for Douglas, was being towed into port by a small...