LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pepita
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor barge Pepita had broken down with engine trouble near Andrew's Spit.
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 10.22 on the morning of the 30th of December, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report from the police at Brighton that a woman had fallen in the sea off Saltdean. At 10.35 the life-boat...
Margaret
Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 12.14 early on the morning of the 6th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was making distress signals in the River Tay, two miles west of the railway bridge. At 12.38...
Two Sailing Boats
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 6.40 on the evening of the 3rd of July, 1954, the life-boat Dunleary II had reached her station again after towing in the motor boat Phoenix. She then learnt that two sailing boats, each with a crew of two, had...
A Rowing Boat (4)
Anstrwther, Fifeshlre.—At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that two boys were drifting in a rowing boat about two miles south-east of Elie Ness.
At 2.25 the life-boat James and...
A Norwegian Centenary
THE celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the first life-boat on the Norwegian coast took place at Stavanger on 22nd August, 1954. It was held at the time of the Annual General Meeting of the Norwegian Life-boat Society and...
Category: Articles
Smiling Morn
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 15th of July, 1955, the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was bound for her station from Oulton Broad following a routine survey. About 1.10 in the afternoon, when she had reached a position one mile south of Southwold,...
A Rubber Mattress
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a girl had been seen floating from the beach on a rubber mattress. The life- boat Louise...
A Dinghy
Plymouth, Devon. At 1.45 early on the morning of the 13th of July, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain thata dinghy with two naval ratings return- ing to their ship was missing. The life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out at...
A Helicopter
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.53 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had been seen to crash half a mile east of Gorleston coastguard look- out. The...