LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Speedboat sinks ON THE MORNING of Easter Sunday April 7, 1985, Brixham coastguard received a report from a member of the public that a speedboat had sunk on Pole Sands and that there were some people in the water. Fifteen minutes later, at...
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Dover, Kent.—At 7.45 on the even- ing of the 1st of August, 1952, H.M.
Customs Coastwatcher reported that two men were cut off by the tide between St. Margarets Bay and Dover, and at 8.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left...
Lady Ursula
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN At 7.35 p.m. on 3ist August, 1965, the Prawle Point coastguard reported that the crew of two of a small boat half a mile south-west of Start Point were waving clothing and that the boat appeared to be drifting. At 7.46...
Captain Hornblower Depicted Here By the Children of Cardinham Primary School Overlooks His Costume Contemporaries at the Bodmin Branch Annual Ball Held at Lanhydrock House the Event
Captain Hornb/ower, depicted here by the children of Cardinham Primary School, overlooks his costume contemporaries at the Bodmin branch annual ball held at Lanhydrock House.
The event made £800, adding to Bodmin's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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New Quay,Cardiganshire-At2p.m.
on 16th August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Llangranog. As it was considered that a small boat might be of assistance the IRB was launched at 2.6 in...
Alnair, of Monrovia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a...
Bree-Helle
St Mary's, Scilly Isles - At 9 a.m.
on 29th January, 1967, news was received that the Dutch coaster Bree-Helle was in rough seas 10 miles west of Rund Island lighthouse. She was carrying a heavy deck cargo and wished to...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 3.58 p.m. on 1st April, 1968, news was received that a fishing vessel was making distress signals half a mile east of the east breakwater. The lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 4.3 in a fresh...
A Steamer
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—19th July, 1939. A steamer had stranded on the South Carr Rock in a fog, but she got off at high water and went on her way.—Rewards, £5 10*..
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LIFE-BOATMAN CARRIES TWO BOYS ASHORE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.25 on the night of the 4th June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were marooned on a marker buoy off Hall Road, Crosby. At 10.40 the...