LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dinghies
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 2 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, news wasreceived that the local sailing club's rescue boats might not be able to cope if the sudden squall which had capsized 21 dinghies in the harbour got any worse.
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Boconnoc
BUDE, CORNWALL.—On the 2nd May the smack Boconnoc, of Padstow, in attempting to proceed to sea, the wind being very light and there being a considerable ground sea, drifted to the north side of the entrance to the harbour. The master, seeing...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 14th of November, 1956, when the weather was deteriorating, the coastguard rang up and asked for the life-boat to escort eight local fishing cobles to harbour. The life-boat Isa and Penryn...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 509 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
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Outsider
At 1.30 P.M.
| on the 1st January during moderately i rough weather Acting Coxswain Culham I received a message stating that a barge appeared to be in difficulties. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 at once...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the second coxswain that five local fishing cobles were out in bad weather.
The honorary secretary went to...
Mary Grace, of Whitstable
Again, on the 5th Nov., the schooner Mary Grace, of Whitstable, went on the South Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the S.W. and in a heavy sea. As the tide made, the sea broke over her, and she filled with water. The large Life- boat...
Dorothea Weber
GERMAN COASTER AIDED At 1.34 p.m. on i8th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German coaster Dorothea Weber appeared to be in difficulties off the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a storm force wind...
Ganges
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.23 in the afternoon, on the 13th of January, 1951, the Newhaven Radio station re- ported that the Dutch tug Ganges, tow- ing a barge and a steam hopper from Rotterdam to Southampton, had asked for help. At 1.45...
Betty Sheader, Betty and Florence
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was told that three local fishing cobles were at sea in weather which was deteriorating.
There was a strong to gale force...