LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alexena
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th of December, 1955, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the life-boat coxswain had reported that a yacht was driving towards the sea wall east of the...
George, of Goole
On the night of the 20th January, the Yarmouth large life-boat went out in reply to signals of distress from a vessel on the Scroby Sands. There was a strong wind blowing at the time, with heavy squalls. On arriving at the spot the...
Blackfriars
Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...
Concerto and Martez (2)
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
A Speed Boat
Mechanical failures Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat crew were mustered on the evening of Sunday July 22, 1984, after Clyde Coastguard had been told that a speedboat was seen to be drifting towards the main channel between Hamilton Rock and...
Calendars and Cards
The R.N.L.I. Christmas card for 1968 will feature a reproduction of an excellent colour transparency showing the Skegness life-boat at sea. The card will sell at 9d., complete with envelope.
There will also be for the first...
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Unity
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 11.5 on the night of the 22nd of March,-1954, the Southend coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Unity, of Inverness, which had a crew of eight, had wirelessed that she had gone aground off the cliffs...
Trojan
The ketch Trojan, of Jersey, bound from London to Morlaix, Brittany, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on the 14th July soon after 2 A.M. The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched in response to signals, and on reaching the ketch the...
A Yacht (2)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 9.30 on the evening of the 7th of August 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had a yacht under observation. Seventeen minutes later they asked for the...
Snapper
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about noon on the 22nd January, 1939, information was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in diffi-culties off Boscombe Pier. A S...