LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Mariner
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 29th May the coastguard telephoned that a yacht off Chesil Beach, about fourteen miles by sea from Weymouth, was flying distress signals. A freshening W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Waterloo
The brigantine Waterloo, of Cork, bound from that place to Bristol, j was stranded on the Northam Sands at I 2 A.M. on the 6th November. A fresh ! gale from W.N.W. was blowing at the ! time. The Waterloo, having no means of i making...
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Leonard Spear
A telephone message was received about 7 P.M. on the 24th January, stating that a pilot boat about two miles off Point Lynas was making signals of distress and required assistance at once. The Life- boat Star of Hope was promptly launched...
Sea Fisher
FISHING VESSEL ESCORTED IN NEAR GALE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.40 on the morning of the 12th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel had broken down off Whitby harbour and that the motor...
Lantyan
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY ALL NIGHT IN FOG Selsey, Sussex. At 9.20 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Niton radio station that the motor vessel Lantyan of Fowey, which had a...
Norden Havet
On the 1st of May last the barque Norden Havet, of Porsgrund, Norway, was towed ashore at Southwold in a sinking state, having grounded on the Leman and Ower Sands. Part of the crew were landed, but the master and two mates remained on board...
Sabine
The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...
Swimming for Swanage
The Reading branch of the British Sub Aqua Club visit Swanage at least once a month all the year round, and this year they decided to give the station half the sponsorship money raised from a threemile swim in the... - View image in PDF
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Visitors
Visits by French, Dutch and Spanish delegations, on behalf of their respective lifeboat societies, took place in November and January.
The Netherlands delegation, headed by the Director of the North and South Holland...
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