LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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RESCUES OF BOYS CUT OFF BY TIDE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that three boys had been cut off by the tide at Huntcliffe, Saltburn, and that a speed boat was...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.24 on the night of the 23rd of March, 1957, a telephone message was received that a man had left the harbour in an open 12-feet sailing dinghy bound for Porte- let Bay at noon but had been seen twice during...
Bidjly
Dover, Kent.—At 9.4 on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties a quarter of a mile off Shakespeare Cliff. The coxswain put out in his own boat to investigate,...
Letter of Appreciation
EX-COXSWAIN EDOUARD BOISARD, of the Barfleur, France, life-boat, has received a letter of appreciation from the Institution in recognition of his services to English yachts and other vessels over many years. The letter also congratulated...
Category: Correspondence
A Rowing Boat (2)
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. Two boys had taken a rowing boat from Babbacombe Beach, but the life-boat could not find them. The police discovered the wreckage of the boat, but as no one had been reported missing it was assumed that the boys...
Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—At about 10 A.M., on the 28th of January, five fishing cobles, which had left the harbour about six hours previously, were observed to be returning, the sea having risen considerably. As crossing the bar was, under the circumstances,...
Lucy, of Sunderland
On the 11th De- cember, the brig Lucy, of Sunderland, was stranded on the shoal part of the Barber Sand. The beachmen put off in one of their yawls, and endeavoured to get the vessel off.
In this, however, they failed; and...
An Open Boat, Elizabeth and Mary Helen
CARDIGAN.—At daylight on the 16th April, intelligence was received at this station that. 4 men had been blown out to sea in an open boat just before dark on the previous day,'and it was hoped they had been able to get to Cardigan...
Clyde, of Yarmouth
On the 16th Jan.,1867, the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The schooner Clyde, of Yarmouth, was ob- served making for the shore, and with signals of distress flying, the wind blowing at the...
George and Ann, of Cardigan
A severe gale was experienced at Peterhead, N.B., on the 22nd September, and two heavily-laden fishing-boats which had been proceeding northward made for the harbour. One, being more to the southward, was enabled to sail wi^h.j-her bow to...