LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 6.50 p.m.
on 7th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people were stranded on an isolated rock below the cliffs at Berth. At 6.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Rosemary
Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.43 p.m. on 27th November, 1965, flares were observed, fired from a small fishing boat which was drifting across Seaford Bay.
Her anchor cable had parted and her engines had failed. The life-boat...
Galley
The ketch Galley, of Gloucester, carrying a crew of three hands, was caught in a bad squall on the 13th December, and had her sails blown away. She then drifted about three-quarters of a mile until near the rocks, where she dropped...
Mary Ann
October 14th. Soon after noon a gale sprang ijp suddenly i from the eastward. A lar^e' number of! Scarborough fishing vessels, which were outside, had to bear up .and run for the harbour at Scarborough. Vessels which ; fall to...
Mary, of South Shields
SCABBOBOTJGH.—During a severe storm on the 28th October, at about 9.30 A.M., the brig Mary, of South Shields, in trying to make the harbour, was driven by the wind and heavy sea on the shore. The Life-boat Lady Leigh was launched, and, after...
Aries
DINGHY FOUND AFTER SEARCH AND TOWED IN Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, members of the Arnside sailing club informed the coxswain that one of their members in the sailing dinghy Aries was...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.24 on the evening of the 8th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a bather had been cut off by the tide at Leigh-on-Sea and had boarded a boat anchored there. At 10.42 the life-boat,...
Tranquillity (1)
Barrow, Lancashire.—During the after- noon of the 8th of September, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard noticed a fishing boat near Half-Way buoy and saw later that she had anchored a mile south of it. At five o'clock the coast- guard...
Brawlass
Barrow, Lancashire. At 8.38 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the Walney coastguard reported seeing red flares about three miles west-north- west of the look-out. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 8.55 in a calm sea with...
Irish Girl
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. — During a strong S. gale and heavy sea on the 12th February a vessel was seen trying to make her way into Holyhead Harbour, but she failed owing to the state of the weather. She then anchored and hoisted a signal, in...