LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine and Margaret
The schooner Catherine and Margaret, of Portmadoc, was at anchor on the llth March, in Porthdinllaen Bay, when in the prevailing N.N.W. gale her anchors commenced to drag. Signals of distress were made, and the Life-boat Barbara Fleming was...
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Book Reviews
MR. C. R. BENSTEAD in Shallow Waters (Robert Hale, 21/-), has produced an engaging, lustily written account of almost anything which may happen and has happened in the coastal waters of Britain. His range is extensive.
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Category: Articles
Two Thunder Jet Aircraft
Margate, Kent. At 6.5 on the even- ing of the 13th of November, 1957, an anticipatory message was received from the coastguard reporting a message from the United States Air Force base at Manston that two Thunder Jet air- craft were missing....
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork - At 11.15 p.m.
on ist April, 1966, a fisherman informed the honorary secretary that a salmon yawl was in difficulties off Youghal. As the weather was bad the life-boat J. B.
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Two swimmers ALREADY OUT ON EXERCISE, On the evening of Tuesday, August 30, Port Talbot D class ILB remained afloat to cover an organised open water swim.
The wind was south west force 4, the sea rough and the tide flooding...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Pioneer
Shortly after midnight on the 19th March, during very rough weather, the schooner Pioneer, of Peterhead,came into the South Bay and anchored. As it was feared that her anchors might drag, a close watch was kept upon her. At about 5.30 A.M. a...
Swift
LOWESTOFT.—The schooner Swift, of Eye, bound to that port from Seaham with coal, was seen with a flag of distress during a gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea at about 11 A.M. on the 12th December, and the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat thereupon...
Swift
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...