LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.50 on the evening of the 17th June, 1961,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an eleven-feet dinghy, with a doctor and his son on board, was adrift about a mile and a half north-east of Rhos...
Solent Sprite
Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.0 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1951, a cabin cruiser was reported signalling in difficulties off East Wittering. The coastguard was asked to keep watch; and at 8.15 the life-boat crew as- sembled. From the...
Yacht Medea
YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.12 on the evening of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam yacht Medea of Colchester, had broken down seven miles west of Portland Bill. There...
BIENVENUE!
Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.
Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...
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The Worthing Boat-House
THE Worthing station was closed in 1930 when a motor life-boat was sta- tioned at Shoreham Harbour. It had then been open seventy-eight years, and its boats had rescued fifty-eight lives. The boat-house, however, re- mained, and in it the...
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A Dinghy (5)
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 6.10 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy off Bull Point appeared to be drifting. A helicopter had been called and the coastguards advised that it would be best to...
Betty and Shirley Williamson
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1954.
two local fishing boats were still at sea in worsening weather, and at four o'clock the life-boat E.C.J.K. was launched. There was a heavy sea,...
Mayflower
LOBSTER BOAT SOUGHT Anxiety was felt about the local lobster fishing boat Mayflower which had put out at ii a.m. on i6th March, 1964, and had not returned five hours later. Weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating and there was a full...
Reliance
NEWPORT (PEMBROKESHIRE).—In reply to signals of distress, the Lifeboat Clevedon was launched at 3 A.M. on the 8th October while the wind was blowing a strong gale from "W. by N. to W.N.W.
It was found that the signal...
Nellie and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 5th of September, 1952, the weather worsened, and anxiety was felt for the safety of the local cobles Nellie and Rachel, which had been at sea since daybreak. At 8.30 the life- boat E.C.J.R....