LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
DRIFTING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Dover, Kent. At 3.19 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, a message was received by the honorary secretary from the eastern arm signal station that an outboard motor boat had broken down off Kingsdown near St....
The Sailing Boat Hilda Kate
TOW FOR BOAT BECALMED Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.40 early on the morning of the 5th August, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat with a boy and girl on board was overdue, and at two o'clock the life-boat Frank...
Buahari
MOTOR CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 28th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat was burning red flares three quarters of a mile off Jay wick. The life-boat Sir...
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SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the local doctor received a call to attend a woman on Middle Island of Aran who was reported to be seriously ill. There was no other boat...
Beaver
NIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING YOUTH AND CABIN CRUISER Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 p.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by a youth's father that the cabin cruiser Beaver with the boy on board had left...
St. Margaret
AID FOR PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. The Preston Harbour Master telephoned the honorary secretary at 11.35 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, stating that the pilot cutter St. Margaret had broken down and was drifting with her...
Sea Ker, of Bideford
Clovelly, Devon-At 10.50 p.m. on 16th June, 1968, it was learnt that acabin cruiser from Bideford was fogbound in Barnstaple bay. Twenty minutes later the coastguard requested the assistance of the life-boat to search for the boat. The...
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Plymouth, Devon - At 6.43 p.m. on 10th June, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on rocks between Picklecombe and Cremyll.
At 7.3 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...
At Exmouth on 16Th May, 1970, the 48-Foot 6-Inch Solent Type Life-Boat City of Birmingham,
At Exmouth on 16th May, 1970, the 48-foot 6-inch Solent type life-boat City of Birmingham, paid for by contributions by the citizens of Birmingham, was named by the Deputy Mayor of Birmingham (Aid. Charles V. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED Flamborough, Yorkshire. At midday on 4th February, 1964, soon after the life-boat had returned from an exercise with the district inspector, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that the Filey honorary...