LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colinne
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 6.5 on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing vessel Colinne of Ullapool had a badly injured man on board who needed medical aid. A...
Secondary Stations Closed
The no. 2 life-boat has been with- drawn from Padstow and transferred to Poole, and the Padstow no. 2 station was officially closed on the 31st March, 1962. Siltation at the toe of the slip- way and generally in the cove has in recent years...
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TWO YOUNG MEN TRAPPED IN CAVE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.26 on the afternoon of the 18th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two young men had been trapped by the rising tide at Smuggler's Cave, Hell's...
Marie Helene
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 10.45 P-m- °n 29tn June, 1967, it was learned that flares had been sighted 14 miles east south east of the Lizard. This was confirmed by the Norwegian motor vessel Possum. The life-boat, The Duke of...
Two Canoes
Eastney, Hampshire. At 4.15 p.m.
on 6th November, 1965, a fisherman told the honorary secretary that a wildfowler was waving for assistance on South Binness Island. After receiving confirmation of the report from the...
Floralie
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
Dinghies
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...
A Dinghy
CABIN CRUISER FOUND AGROUND IN RIVER Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was adrift in a small rubber dinghy off Carnoustie. The life-boat The Robert was...
Sea Flight
ADRIFT FOR THIRTY-ONE HOURS Minehead, Somerset. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen the cabin cruiser Sea Flight displaying a distress signal.
There...
Yarmouth's Arun Class Lifeboat Joy and John Wade
Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat Jo and John Wade is pictured during a service to the Maltese-registered Ro-Ro vessel/4/A M'tff e/-/during the severe storms which swept the country on 28/29 October 1989. The photograph may not be of... - View image in PDF
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