LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alecto
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 5th June at 4 A.M. the barque Alecto, of Malta, bound from Cyprus to Aberdeen with locust beans, stranded on the Cross Sand during a fresh wind from 8.W. A yawl immediately proceeded to her, and remained alongside...
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
Baldur
KINGSDOWN, KENT.—At 9.20 A.M. on the 13th April signals were fired by the South Sands Head Light-vessel indicating that a vessel was in distress on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were quickly mustered and the...
Naming Ceremonies
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, named two new life-boats in 1954. These life- boats, The Duchess of Kent and Edian Courtauld, are now on service at Fraserburgh and at Walton and Frinton.
Ten new...
Category: Inaugurations
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Southwold, Suffolk. At 12.30 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was stranded on a mud bank in the River Blythe by the rising tide. At 12.40 the inshore rescue boat launched in...
Caragh
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.55 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the honorary secretary, while listening to his radio on the trawler wave band,heard a distress call from the yacht Caragh, stating that she was dragging her anchors over the...
Dixie
Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...
Cashlow
YACHT ESCORTED TO ANCHORAGE Poole, Dorset. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Hook Sands. There was a strong south-easterly breeze...
Yarinya and Auxiliary Cutter Cossar
Poole, Dorset. At 7.42 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the yacht Yarinya was aground on a bank in South Deep in Poole harbour and was making water. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
A Small Outboard-Powered Boat
Two saved by brothers andjifeboat The quick thinking of two young men who were about to take a swim in the Teign estuary undoubtedly saved the life of at least one of two people who were thrown into the water when their small outboardpowered...