LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hovercraft
At 3.52 p.m. on 23rd August, 1966, information was received that a hovercraft had broken down west of the bathing pool. At 4.9 the life-boat Fairlight was launched. It was one hour before high water. The life-boat towed the hovercraft, which...
A Pantomime and a "Raffel"
THIS story of a gift of twenty-five shillings cannot be better told than in the letter which came with it: "Dear Secretary of the Life-boat Organisation, "I enclose a £l 5s. p.o. for the life- boat. The wray in...
Category: Donations
Yachts
JULY 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 1.30 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched to attend the Curracloe Regatta.
The sea was rough, with a strong southsouth- westerly wind blowing...
A British Aeroplane (1)
MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.
was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...
Two Dinghies
AUGUST 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
Two dinghies had been reported in difficulties, one off Sutton-on-Sea, the other north of Mablethorpe, but both were picked up by other boats. - Permanent paid...
Olive May
On the 3rd Septem- ber, at about 5.15 P.M., fishermen told the Coxswain that a barge, two miles E.S.E. of Cromer, was flying a signal. The weather was fine with a smooth sea and strong W.N.W. breeze.
The signal was not...
Galaxy
BROKEN CROSS-TREES Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.56 a.m. on igth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht in distress near Cork sands. There was a slight sea with a gentle...
Royal
£ HOLYHEAD.—About 7.45 on the evening of Sunday, the 27th January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen in the outer roads burning signals of distress. The steam...
Fishing Boats
Ranugate, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 12th of September, 1949, a vessel was reported aground on Quern Head,off the Brake Sands; and at 11.17 the life-boat Mary Scott, 011 temporary duty at the station, left her moorings.There was a...
Swift and Julia
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the afternoon of the 8th December two flags of distress were observed in Derbyhaven Bay during a gale from the W.S.W. The Hope Life-boat was launched at about 3.30 and brought ashore the crew, consisting of five...