LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marie Galante
At noon on 2yth July, 1966, a Belgian yacht was reported aground and capsizedcapsized on the Longsand Head. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 12.20 in a strong north-north-easterly wind and a very rough sea. It was four hours...
Antres
ST. MARY'S SCILLY ISLANDS.—The coastguard men at St. Agnes having signalled for the Life-boat, the Henry Dundas put off at 6.50 P.M. on the 3rd of May in a very heavy sea and thick weather and proceeded to the Western Bocks, where the...
Barrule
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.40 in the morning on the 1 st of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned a report received from Seaforth Radio that a motor vessel was disabled and drifting three miles north of Skerries. She was the Barrule, of...
Anglo American
At 5.35 P.M. on the 12th January, during a fierce N.E.
gale, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore near the Reculvers.
The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriett were summoned and the boat...
A Coaster
Hastings, Sussex - At 6.22 p.m. on 1 8th June, 1967, it was reported that coaster had engine trouble about four miles south of Hastings. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.51 in light south easterly wind and a smooth sea.
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Imperialist and Silver Line
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the weather was deteriorating and that the local fishing cobles Imperialist and Silver Line were still at sea. At 1.45 the...
Willesden
Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.25 A.M. on the 8th May news was received from the coastguard that an S O S
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Juno
On the 1st October, during hazy weather, the barquentine Juno, of Riga, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sunderland. Informa- tion reached the Coxswain of the Life- boat about 9 A.M., and with all speed...
Your shout
You receive a letter from the RNLI, you open it and see ‘Invitation to attend a Special Visitor Day in Poole’. What should you do? Cancel, postpone or decline any other event on that same date! Why? So that you can experience a truly...
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