LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 9.58 in the night, on the 29th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report that a sailing boat was drifting out to sea two miles in an easterly direction from Chapel Point coastguard station, but that no...
Kittiwake
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.0 on the night of the 8th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the sailing dinghy Kittiwake had put out on a fishing trip that afternoon, but had not returned. At 11.15 the life- boat Jane Holland, on...
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Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.40 on the night of the 3rd of October, 1951, the head keeper of Haulbowline Light- house telephoned that one of the keepers was very ill. No other suit- able boat was available, and at mid- night the life-boat...
Frem
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had anchored off Humanby Gap. As the weather got worse her position became dangerous, and at 9.54 the life- boat The...
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies: A Correction
IN the October issue of The Life-boat was an article with this heading, and among the corporate bodies mentioned was Lloyd's, donor of a life-boat which bears its name.
It .should have been said that Lloyd's not...
Category: Donations
Betsy
DRIFTING FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 14th June, 1962, the police at Whitehead informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting with three people on board off Black Head. The...
Sunglow
EXHAUSTED HOLIDAY-MAKERS FOUND IN BOAT Falmouth, Cornwall. At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired a red flare a mile and a half off...
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MAN TAKEN FROM RHUM IN GALE Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 5.50 on the evening of Monday, the 16th September, 1963, the Factor of the island of Rhum telephoned the honorary secretary asking for the help of the life-boat as a man had a...
Pilot Me
FISHING COBLE AT SEA At 11.15 a-m- on 3otn October, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Pilot Me was at sea in very bad weather, and the coxswain thought that she would have difficulty in returning...
Lindfar
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—During the morning of the 25th of March, 1955, a wireless message was heard from the fishing boat Lindfar, of Eyemouth, that she was returning to Eyemouth, as a member of her crew had been badly injured by a winch....