LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 5.50 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard reported that two youths were cut off by the tide at Selwick bay. At 6.20 the life-boat Grace Darling, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate...
Ton-Up II
Worthing, Sussex. At 1.25 p.m. on l8th May, 1964, the honorary secretary was tojd that a boat had capsized i| miles west of the station. At i .29 inshore rescue boat no. 10 launched in a fresh southwesterly breeze and choppy sea. The tide...
An Aeroplane (12)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
Shamrock, of Wick
OCTOBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.38 at night the coastguard reported that flashes from a torch and a white flare had been seen six hundred yards north of South Head. A strong north-north-west breeze was blowing,...
A Small Boat
18th June. A small boat was reported overdue, but was later found to have put into Hayling.— Rewards, £11 15s..
Two Canoes
AUGUST 7TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Two canoes had been reported capsized, but later were reported to be safe. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d..
Johannesburg
At 6.30 A.M. on 8th February, the steam trawler Johannesburg, of Scarborough, ran ashore on the north side of Filey Brigg. She had a crew of nine on board. Information was given by the Coastguard and the Filey Pulling and Sailing Life-boat...
John Robert, White Rose and Little Madge (1)
Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...
An Inflatable Dinghy
Floating away Arbroath's all-weather crew were assisting a local boat on 8 April 2006 when they noticed an inflatable dinghy being swept out to sea by tide and wind. D class John Charles Raybould and crew launched at 3pm to investigate....
Royal Ulsterman
IRISH AND GREEK SHIPS ASHORE IN A BLIZZARD Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 7.20 in the morning of February 26th, 1947, the Southend coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Royal Ulsterman, of Belfast, was aground on Arran. She was on her...