LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (1)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.52 on the afternoon of the 1st of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized south of the pier head. The life-boat Edian Court- auld put out at 3.5 in a slight...
Yvonne Risager
TWO HOUR WAIT BEFORE ENTERING HARBOUR Dunbar, East Lothian. At. 6.15 on the evening of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that the life-boat coxswain had been told by the skipper of...
Wrecks
DURING the past week ending 16th December, 49 wrecks have been reported—making a total for the present year of 3,208.—Shipping Gazette.
Such is the brief but forcible record which has caught our eye as we were going to...
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Grit
The Sandgate coast- guard telephoned to the coxswain, at 3 A.M. on the 22nd February, that a ship had been sounding S O S on her hooter. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. At 3.28 A.M.
the motor...
Launcher Will Soon Be 100
Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.
It is recalled that, with his brother who...
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Henning
On the 6th April, at 4.30 A.M., during a moderate N.E. wind, signal guns were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded under sail to the North Sand Head and found a barque ashore on the North-east part of the...
Shifting Sands
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
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A Rowing Boat
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...
A Rowing Boat and a Dinghy
Two calls NEWTON AUXILIARY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Craster lifeboat station at 1100 on Saturday May 1 that three men had moored their fishing boat at Newton Haven, a few miles to the north of Craster, and, trying to row...
Thrift
While the local fishing fleet were at sea on the 2nd November the weather broke, and a strong south breeze sprang up, with a rough sea. All boats except the Thrift got safely in, and the motor life- boat L. P. & St. Helen was launched at...