LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canvas Canoe
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1957, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the New Brighton stage- man saying that the hopper Gamma had reported that she had seen two bovs drifting in a small...
Lindy Lou
CHILD AMONG FOUR RESCUED FROM YACHT Hoylake, Cheshire. Around 11.20 on the morning of the 30th July, 1962, a number of reports were received stating that a yacht had sunk off Sandhey slipway and that her crew were in the...
Henrich
NORTH DEAL and RAMSGATE, KENT.
—At 10.15 A.M. on the 29th August a barque was observed from Deal ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was promptly launched and proceeded to her assistance. She proved...
Gretafield
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
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SE P T E M B E R 2 0 T H . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. An R.A.F. officer had been drowned bathing and the police asked that his body, which could be seen, might be recovered, but it floated into a creek inaccessible to the life-boat and was...
A Naval Whaler
The Lizard, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1960, in- formation was received that a naval whaler manned by an officer and four cadets on passage from Falmouth to Penzance was off the Lizard and might be in difficulties...
Our Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund have now completed their first year of work and are issuing their first Annual Report. We have read it with much interest and are satisfied that its contents will afford eminent...
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Soudan
Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...
Two Fishing Cobles
Two fishing-cobles, with three men in each, were observed making for this harbour at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April.
A strong E. gale had suddenly sprung up, causing a heavy sea on the bar, and the boats were in great danger...
Amalthea
FISHING VESSEL TOWED AFTER PROPELLERS CLEARED Amble, Northumberland. At 1.26 early on the morning of the llth July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amalthea of Seahouses needed help as her fishing...