LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cariad
TOW FOR YACHT WITH TWO ABOARD Ilfracombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was flashing sos off Highveer Point, Lynmouth. There was a moderate breeze...
Aurora
TOW FOR PLEASURE BOAT WITH SIX ABOARD Arbroath, Angus. At 8.47 on the evening of the 28th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the life-boat motor mechanic that the crew of a small boat were burning red flares three quarters of a mile west...
Book Review
Motor Boats and Motor Boating by Hilary and K. J. Wickham (Stanley Paul, 255) can be recommended as a clearly written and sensible guide to those who are planning to take to the water for their own pleasure. The book is directed to beginners...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER IN SEARCH FOR DINGHY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 19th March, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Great Orme's Head lighthouse that a dinghy...
Repertor
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.54 p.m. on 9th March, 1967, a barge was reported in difficulties near the Black Tail Spit buoy. The life-boat Cecil amd Lillian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.21 in a storm force...
A Fishing Boat
Fishing boat missing A SMALL FISHING BOAT missing, believed to be in the Loch Shell area, was reported to the honorary secretary of Stornoway lifeboat station at 0010 on Thursday, September 9, 1976.
The weather was cloudy...
Newhaven Sunday December 13:
Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Orlando
Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at...
Orkney Reiver
Fishing vessel towed to safety The fishing vessel Orkney Reiver of Kirkwall fouled her propeller with a fishing net and was drifting eight miles south west of Fitful Head, Shetland on 10 November.
There being no other...
The S.S. Vistula
OCT. 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M. that the S.S. Vistula, of Gothenburg Sweden, had been sunk by enemy action on the previous day twenty-five miles off Unst, that nine of her crew had...