LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gale Gazelle
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 12.15 p.m. on loth July, 1964, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew saw a speedboat capsize half a mile off shore from the harbour entrance. The inshore rescue boat immediately launched in a fresh north-westerly...
Volante
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported a message from the Tongue lightvessel that the local trawler Volante had sunk three- quarters of a mile south of South Knock Buoy,...
Good Cheer and Other Cobles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — While the local fishing fleet was at sea in the early morning of the 29th of November, 1950.
the wind increased from the north- north-west until by nine o'clock it was blowing a gale, causing a...
Dimcyl (1)
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.30 on the evening on the llth of August, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor yacht Dimcyl was flying a distress signal about two miles north of Lowestoft. She seemed to be trying to make harbour against a...
Singer Opens Display Centre
MR. FRANKIE VAUGHAN, the well- known popular singer, opened a new life-boat display centre at 167 King's Road Arches, Brighton, on the 23rd of July, 1960. The centre contains a number of life-boat models, and on display at the opening...
Category: Articles
Oredian
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1960, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the ore carrier Oredian of London had an injured man on board and had asked for a doctor. As it was low water and no...
Fishing Boats (2)
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 11.35 on the morning of the 29th of Novem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats had not returned to harbour. Some anxiety was felt, as there was a heavy swell,...
Sheen
Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a half-decked fishing boat had anchored near the Bar buoy and that a man was waving a flag. There was a light...
Laura II
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 on the morning of the 8th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor boat, whose engine had failed, was being rapidly carried out to sea on the ebb tide. There was a fresh...
A Converted Ship's Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat had been aground all night alongside Barrow Deep lightvessel. Her crew had no petrol for...