LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd of August, 1949, the local fishing coble Isabella was at sea. As there was a heavy swell and the wind from the west was freshening, the life- boat The Cuttle was launched at 9.55.
National Day of Prayer.
A hospital at Stranmillis, Belfast, the Garrison Church at Larkhill, Wiltshire, and churches in Cornwall, Northamptonshire, Lancashire and Gloucestershire, sent to the Life-boat Service the special collections which they nude on September...
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Merlin, of Llanelly
On the 13th December, the Princess of Wales life-boat on this Station went off to the assistance of a vessel reported as being in distress in the harbour of refuge at this place, she having dragged her anchors near the Breakwater. It was...
Grania
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.30 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1953, the life-boat signalman reported that a fishing boat had taken in tow a dis- masted yacht, the Grania, of Ports- mouth, and needed the help of the life-boat. The weather...
Closed Stations.
The stations at Southwold (Suffolk) and Walmer and Hythe (Kent) have been temporarily closed on account of the war. Of the life-boats at St. Peter Port, Guernsey and St. Helier, Jersey the Institution has had no news since the Germans...
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A Gannet Aircraft (3)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Tear-Away
YACHT TOWED FROM DANGEROUS POSITION Selsey, Sussex. At 9.40 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Selsey coastguard told the honorary secretary he was not happy about a small yacht in the vicinity of Middle Ground buoy. Later the...
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ILB Dash TWO TEENAGE girls brought word to Rhossili Coastguard Station, at 6 p.m.
on July 2, 1973, that four of their friends were stranded on Worms Head.
A member of the Coastguard drove straight to the...
Sea Rover
Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1959, the police at Cleethorpes informed the coxswain superintendent that a bather was in difficulties off Humberstone. At the same time the coastguard reported that a yacht,...
Grethe
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—On the morning of the 25th March, a strong breeze was blowing from N.E., the sea was moderate and the weather thick, with snow squalls. About 10 o'clock the coxswain of the Life-boat James Steveiis No. 9 received...