LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mavis
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of October, 1955, the Tynemouth coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had reported that a fishing coble was in distress about four miles north-north-east of Cullercoats....
A Sea Cadet Whaler
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 11.17 on the night of the 24th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a Sea Cadet whaler from Portsmouth, with a crew of three, was under sail about one mile north of Ramore Head, but was drifting seawards...
An Adventurous Life
Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.
Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his...
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Sally Brown
WOMAN WAVED FOR HELP Cromer, Norfolk. At 4.5 p.m. on 5th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht with a man and a woman on board was reported to be in difficulties close inshore near Mundesley Church. A rope had...
Two Dinghies
TWO DINGHIES TOWED At 7.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that three youths who had hired one of his boats were having difficulty in returning and that he had sent out an outboard motor...
Maisie
ON THE ROCKS At 1.15 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare north of Trevor Point. There was a very rough sea with gale force west-south-westerly winds.
The tide had...
Two Sailing Dinghies
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM CAPSIZED DINGHY St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.17 on the afternoon of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two sailing dinghies had capsized in St. Bride's Bay off Nolton and...
A Dinghy (2)
IRELAND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.20 a.m.
on 2yth October, 1964, the coxswain was told by a crew member of the Dutch fishing vessel Van Maria that another member of his crew had gone out in a rubber dinghy but had not...
Shaula
On Saturday June 13, at 0420, red flares were sighted east of the station by Ramsey Coastguard. It was an overcast morning with a gale force 8 blowingfrom the south. The sea was rough and it was an hour after low...
Helen M.
On a lee shore INFORMATION from Ministry of Defence Police that a catamaran, Helen M, was anchored in a dangerous position off Pendine was received by Tenby Coastguard at 2110 on Wednesday October 7, 1981. Two of the catamaran's crew...