LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (4)
Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.56 on the evening of the of 20th September, 1960, the watchman the on east pier told the coxswain that a small vessel had been burning flares near the no. 3 buoy.
The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
A Canoe
CANOE CAPSIZED Boulmer, Northumberland. At 4.55 p.m. on 3 ist May, 1964, an Alnmouth resident told the honorary secretary that a canoe appeared to be in difficulty at the mouth of the River Aln. Shortly afterwards the canoe, which had aboard...
Sus
.— During a whole S.E. gale with a heavy sea on 22nd November the yacht Sus, of Cowes, with three men on board, got into distress about eight miles W.S.W. of Rame Head. Her signals were seen by found that she had badly damaged her bows....
Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
Retirement from the Post of Chief Inspector.
ON 14th August Captain Howard F. J.
Rowley, C.B.E., E.N., to the great regret of the Committee of Manage- ment and the officers and staff of the Institution,...
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Lady Shirley
Filey, Yorkshire. — At 5.10 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard saw the salmon fishing boat Lady Shirley capsize. . A fresh breeze was blowing from the north-north-west with a moderate swell. The .boat was close in shore...
An Aeroplane (8)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
Buahari
MOTOR CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 28th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat was burning red flares three quarters of a mile off Jay wick. The life-boat Sir...
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 8.15 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat from Milford Haven could not be found in the harbour, but that a small boat with two people on...
Fishing Boats (1)
During the afternoon of the 16th February a sudden strong N.N.W. gale got up, with a heavy, broken sea and snow showers. The motor life-boat H.C.J.
was launched at 3.30 P.M., as two local motor fishing boats had gone to Hoy...