LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tula
Margate, Kent - At 7.3 a.m. on ist October, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Ridge sandbank half a mile south west of the North Tongue buoy. Although no distress signals had been made a passing ship reported that the yacht had a...
Review
The female shipwright
by Mary Lacy Review by Joanna Bellis
This is a tale of that old cliché, running away to sea. The difference here is that the escapee is an...
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Ten stranded HARTLAND COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station at 2115 on Monday March 28, 1983, that an adventure holiday party, three adult instructors and seven children, had not returned following a day...
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
Westerook
Wicklow - At 10.55 P-m- on September, 1966, the m.v. Westerook, which had left Wicklow harbour that night bound for Cork, was reported aground on the North Arklow bank and had asked for the assistance of the lifeboat.
The...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ALL through the current year the cry of "bad business" and "no business" has been resounding through| the land, north, south, east and west, and the general depression, which seems to have settled upon us, might...
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Ling and Cabin Cruiser Dorella
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...
Plaque to Bridlington Bowman
A PLAQUE in memory of Robert Redhead, a former bowman of the Bridlington life-boat, has been placed in the boathouse. Robert Redhead lost his life when the Bridlington life-boat capsized off Flamborough on the 19th of August, 1952. The...
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Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.50 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1959, the police at Hoylake told the coxswain that two young men who had gone swimming from Hilbre Island at 4.15 had not returned to the beach. At 6.35 the life- boat Oldham IV...
Edna
Aith, Shetlands. At 5.40 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a man told the honorary secretary that he had seen a green flare just west of the Island of Vementry. It was one hour to high water when the life-boat John and Francis MacFarlam put out at...