LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Moon Raker
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.59 on the even- ing of the 26th of October, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that two red flares had been seen between three and four miles off Coombe Point.
At 9.25 the life-boat George Shee put...
Helen
Barrow, Lancashire. — At 8.55 on the night of the 7th of July, 1952, whilst the coxswain was on duty aboard the pilot boat, a message was intercepted from Morecambe Bay Lightvessel to Seaforth Radio that a small yacht bound for Fleetwood...
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—While the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary duty at the station, was on show for the local life-boat day, on the 2nd of August, 1957, the coxswain was told that a canoe had capsized a mile and a...
Giselle
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 2.55 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the harbour master had reported that a yacht was aground at Inscar Point and was in danger of breaking up.
The...
Rivulet
North Deal, Kent.—The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at about 1 A.M. on the 3rd October, in response to signals from the Gull Lightship, during a strong westerly breeze. The boat proceeded to the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and...
Camelia
Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Camelia, of New Quay. At...
Frieda
Overdue BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Portaferry lifeboat station at 1815 on Sunday December 19, 1982, that the yacht Frieda, on passage in Strangford Lough betweeen Killyleagh and Ringshaddy, had been reported...
A Bronze Medal Service at Holyhead
ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.
A small...
Category: Services
Angling Dinghies
Whitstable's Atlantic capsizes on service to f[shing^)gats The dangers facing lifeboat crews were cgraphically illustrated at Whitstable on Sunday 3 January 1999 when the station's Atlantic was capsized by a breaking sea soon after...
A Rowing Boat (1)
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 6.15 P.M. the assistant mechanic reported that a rowing boat had been in difficulties about two miles off the east pier at 5.30 P.M., and although she was now getting closer she would not make...