LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An R.A.F. Target Raft
MAY 31ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Men had been reported aboard an R.A.F. target raft, but they were cormorants which flew away as the life-boat approached. - Rewards, £8 1s..
None (3)
Howth, Co. Dublin. On the morning of the 8th December, 1961, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honor- ary secretary that an elderly man on Lambay Island, who had recently under- gone an operation, was in urgent need of hospital...
Good Intent
On the 5th October, about 10 P.M., signals of distress were seen from a fishing-smack being driven before a strong gale from the S. W. The assembly signal was made, and many willing hands quickly got the Life-boat Leslie to the water's...
An Aeroplane (53)
JUNE 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Signals of distress had been reported 10 miles away, but the life-boat was recalled, as a destroyer had picked up the crew of an aeroplane. - Rewards, £18 10s..
Two Small Yachts
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 6.45 oil the evening of Sunday, the 24th of Sep- tember, 1950, one of two small yachts off Kettleness Point, was seen to be in difficulties. The other was standing by. During the next thirty minutes, however, the wind...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At noon on the 28th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ten-year-old boy had fallen from the top of a cliff a hundred and eighty feet high into the sea half a mile north- west of...
Empress of India
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 4th September, the Coastguard having reported a vessel was making distress signals. It transpired that the ketch barge Empress of India, of. Ipswich, whilst bound from...
Hope, of Aberystwith
The Royal Berkshire life-boat also succeeded in getting the smack Hope, of Aberystwith, and her crew of 3 men, off the South Bank and safely into harbour.
Ashdene
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 1960, a telephone message was received from the owners of the coaster Ashdene that she needed help some sixteen miles south-south-east of Wick. There was a moderate north...
An Ex-Airborne Life-Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...