LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
lyruna
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1,45 on the morning of the 2nd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that flares had been seen one mile south-west of the Needles fairway buoy. At 2.10, when the life-boat S.G.E.
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A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....
Contents
Notes of the Quarter 183 Contents Lifeboat Services 185 Annaal General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 192 N limber 476 The naming of the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Sir Max Aitken 197 Back in Business—Hunstanton, closed 1931: re-opened...
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Missel Thrush
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4.34 on the afternoon of the 25th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a 25-feet yacht needed help about a mile east-north-east of Platte Fougere.
There was a light easterly wind...
Primrose
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Primrose, which had a crew of four, had not returned and had last been seen by fishermen near Mav...
Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 4th ofNovember, 1957, the skipper of the large keel boat Brilliant Star reported on returning to harbour that the weather was worsening rapidly and the fishing coble Premier...
Gnomo
Walmer, Kent - 9.56 p.m. on 15th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a yacht was aground on the Goodwin sands about five miles east of Deal pierhead. At 10.8 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station,...
Harmony
Exmouth, Devon - At 8.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a yacht was in distress off Brandy Head near Beer. There was fresh west south westerly breeze with moderate sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty...
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The LifeboatSpring 1990 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 511 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
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Mavis
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 4.56 in the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1949, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in danger in Brodick Bay, Arran, She had run short of petrol and lost her dinghy. The life-boat City...