LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Announcement
The January number of THE LIFE-BOAT, which was the first edition in the new format, was delayed by the postal strike and many readers did not receive copies until well into March. In that issue we stated that those who have hitherto received...
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Excelsior
Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.25 on the morning of 1st of January, 1959, the coastguard at Spurn Point informed the honorary secretary that three red flares had been seen about six or seven miles off Withernsea. At 7.47 the life-boat City of...
Bedouin
SAW FLASHING LIGHT Montrose, Angus. At 11.53 P-m- on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flashing light had been reported at sea and was understood to be a distress signal. The yacht Bedouin which had...
Dolphin (1)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 12th of June» 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that the cabin cruiser Dolphin of Southend, on passage to Wallasea Bay was...
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A Naval Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 2 0TH. SELSEY, AND SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.13 A.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that the Bognor police had reported a naval aeroplane down in the sea off Bognor. A northerly breeze was blowing. The...
Brothers to the Rescue
ON the morning of Easter Sunday a medical student and a nursing sister went out in a canoe from Bognor Regis.
When they were half a mile off shore they capsized. The wind, from the west, was strong, the sea rough, and the...
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Three Metal Floats
JULY 22ND. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. During the afternoon four young men, holiday visitors from Coventry, went out on three metal floats from Prestatyn. The sea was rough and a strong south-westerly wind was blowing.<...
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Two Small Sailing Yachts
ESCORTING YACHTS IN A FOG Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 11.80 on the night of the 24th of July, 1947, it was reported that two small sailing yachts from Howth were lost in fog, and the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched at 11.45. There was no wind...