LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.17 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy, with two boys on board, had capsized in Portland harbour, about a quarter of a mile off Sandsfoot Castle,...
Valkyrie II
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.15 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a signal about one and a half miles N.W. from Kinnaird Head.
A strong north-westerly breeze was...
Trip
FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Seaham, Co. Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 7th April, 1962, the Seaham coastguard received a report from Easington that a fishing coble was in distress. A gentle west-by-north wind was blowing, and the sea...
St Margarite
On Scroby Sand WHILE WORKING aboard their lifeboat on Saturday December, 1979, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston crew, at 1758, heard a mayday from the fishing vessel St Margarite. Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins told Yarmouth Coastguard that...
A Meteor Aircraft
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that No. 18 Group, Royal Air Force, at Inver- keithing had reported that an air search was being made off Whitby for a missing Meteor aircraft. At...
Venture
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the local motor fishing boat Venture had left the island of Bernera, Lewis, for Stornoway on the 12th with a crew...
Wanderer and a Cabin Cruiser
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that the yacht Wanderer, which was towing a cabin cruiser, appeared to be in difficulties off St. Anthony...
Wicklow
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard (1)
Sail board in trouble AT 1553 on Wednesday, November 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Aberystwyth lifeboat station was informed by Milford Haven coastguard that a board sailor was in trouble just outside the mouth of Aberystwyth...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ISLE OF WHITHORN, N.B.—On the re- presentation of Divisional Officer, C. W. M. S. McKERLIE, Esq., of the Coast-guard, and the recommendation of the Inspector of Life-boats, the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station on...
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