LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (15)
At 1.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy had capsized off Seapoint. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings 10 minutes later in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
A Motor Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...
A Silver Medal Service at Peterhead
JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...
Category: Services
Longhope £3,000 raised from three islands tour
Keeping fundraising going after the Summer is no mean feat, but for some communities it can be even trickier. With residents
across Orkney keen to support their local crew, Longhope Lifeboat Guild volunteers toured their bazaar...
Category: Articles
A Trawler (2)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—10th January. A trawler had run ashore ten miles west of Mumbles Head, but her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus, with the exception of one man who was drowned....
Sandbank Mistaken for a Cloud
The Institution has made rewards of £15 : 15 :- to three fishermen of Boston, Lincolnshire, for rescuing three airmen whose aeroplane had crashed en a.
sandbank. They had come down through a cloud over The Wash and had...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire - At 2.45 p.m. on 6th September, 1966, a speed boat was seen adrift in Criccieth Bay.
There was a fresh westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 3.5 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was launched on an...
A Yacht (2)
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized in Lligwy Bay. At 12.25 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched. It was high water and there was a rough...
A Motor Boat (2)
Margate, Kent.—31st May. A motor boat was wrecked in shallow water, but her crew waded ashore.—Rewards, £13 8s..