LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aimee-Leone
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 13th August, 1961, news was received that the yacht Aimee-Leone was firing red flares about five hundred yards south-east of Hast- ings harbour. A fresh west-south- westerly wind was blowing...
An Aeroplane (72)
SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...
Your Letters
Let's campaign to improve safety at sea! As an RNLI member, I was interested to read the Director's message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT and the Newspoint on page 147 suggesting that the RNLI is at last looking at ways to...
Category: Correspondence
Triumph
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. — About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned a message received from Cross- bost Post Office that a motor fishing vessel, the Triumph, of Stornoway, appeared to be in a...
Loch Eribol
DOCTOR'S ASSISTANCE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 3.45 p.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Loch Eribol of Hull had a badly injured man on board. Her position was then 23 miles east of...
Contents
Meet Monte, rescued by Henry Blogg Page 12 The Annual Presentation of Awards 1956 Page 15 Portsmouth crew venture into icy waters Page 26 News Including learning to be SAFE, a station closes, and a supporter competition Feature: Cromer's...
Category: Contents
Two Motor Boats
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, two motor boats, one towing the other, left Whitby for Staithes in fine weather. There was a strong south- easterly wind, with a heavy swell and an ebb tide. At 8.15...
Armorel
Appledore, Devon. At 10.10 a.m. on 2nd July, 1964, while the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker was on a combined exercise with the Royal Air Force, the sailing yacht Armorel, about three miles south-west by west of Fairway buoy, was seen to be...
Fortunatus
The motor fishing boat Fortunatus went out fishing early in the morning of the 3rd May.
She had not returned by 9.30 A.M., and as a strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, and the sea was rising and breaking at the harbour entrance...
Sister Pat
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11 A.M.
on the 17th February, 1939, the motor boat Sister Pat, belonging to Fleetwood, with two men on board, was seen by the second coxswain of the life-boat to be making distress signals. She was...