LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Morandi
Early on the morning of the 23rd June four young men left Lynmouth for Mumbles in the auxiliary yacht Morandi, of Mumbles.
Soon after she put out the engine broke down. With the help of her sails she got as far as...
A Dinghy and a Sailing Dinghy
TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
Plymouth's Madonna Look-A-Like Caroline Taylor
Plymouth's Madonna look-a-like, Caroline Taylor, wax bundled into a cur and driven off at high speed by the baddies. Having transferred to a bout the bad guys and their captive rendezvoused with good guy Lord Mayor Tonv Parish, who was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marion
ISLE of ARRAN, N.B.—On the 13th July, at about 11.30 P.M., during a strongN.E. wind and moderate sea, the pilot smack Marion, while cruising between Lamlash and Ailsa Craig, had her jib carried away; she afterwards stranded on the Carlin...
Dolphin
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 7.58 on the evening of the 26th of July, 1955, the coxswain was told that a cabin cruiser was close under Porth- dinllaen Point, and that her crew were waving frantically. Twelve minutes later the...
Thurso Naming
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother named the new Thurso life-boat—-a 48-foot 6-inch Solent class boat—on llth August, by the Hotel Quay, Scrabster Harbour.
Named The Three Sisters, she was paid for by an anonymous...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rowing Skiff
Droughty Ferry, Angus. At 4.30 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the police informed the coxswain that a man who was swimming in the Tay, 300 yards off Broughty Castle, appeared to be in difficulties.
An empty rowing skiff was seen a...
Sir James
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 2.36 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the coaster Sir James, of London, which had a crew of five, was sheltering in Church Bay, Rathlin Island, but was dragging her...
Siluria
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 6th of January, 1951, the Spurn Point coastguard reported a message from Kilnsea coastguard that a vessel was ashore half a mile north of the coastguard station. The night was very dark, but the...
Beatrice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 9.36 on the evening of the 28th of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that distress signals were being shown in Yarmouth Roads. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station,...