LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailboard
Exhausted windsurfer A WINDSURFER had got into difficulties 300 feet off Morecambe stone jetty on the afternoon of Tuesday August 20, 1985. He was spotted from the promenade by a passer-by who immediately rang Liverpool coastguard. By 1420...
New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
Category: Articles
Crew Rescued After Vessel Strikes Life-Boat
AT 2.1 on the afternoon of 18th Novem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Blyth life-boat station, Captain H.
Rowe, was informed by the coastguard that a small coaster was in difficulties off Blyth Fairway buoy. Two...
Category: Services
Pinta
The Humber, Yorkshire.—While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn on the 23rd July, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a fresh westerly...
Mary Robinson
TO NORTH SHIELDS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.20 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the crew of the coble XmasRose informed the honorary secretary that the coble Mary Robinson was still at sea. It was almost low water; the sea was rough due to a...
A Jet Speed Boat
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a jet speed-boat with a young man aboard was adrift between Abersoch beach and Llanbe- drog point. As no...
Silver Queen
LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Torbay, Devon. At 5.4 on the afternoon of the 20th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the police at Torbay that a boat near Thatcher rock needed help. The...
Lundy
FISHERMAN SIGHTS CASUALTY FROM TREE TOP Swanage, Dorset. At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1962, a fisherman reported to the honorary secretary that he had seen, from the top of a tree, a fishing vessel drifting a mile off...
None
Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 1.30 a.m. on 31st January, 1970, the life-boat coxswain had a request from Owey island for the use of the life-boat to take a young man, who was seriously ill with suspected meningitis, to the mainland. There was...
Schesaplana
Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...