LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Mudeford, Hampshire-At 1.45 p.m.
on zist April, 1966, a visitor to Mudeford informed a member of the IRB crew that a sailing dinghy had capsized about one mile east of the harbour entrance. The IRB was immediately launched...
Kenrix
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.6 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Kenrix, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. At 8.40 the life- boat Greater...
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TO THE HAVEN Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 10.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
At n o'clock the...
Don, of Jersey
On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...
H.M. Coastguard's Busy Year
IN the past year H.M. Coastguard has taken part in about 750 incidents round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Some were dangerous and spectacular, others were minor cliff rescues. They ranged from the recovery of a St....
Category: Services
A Rowing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 21st of July, 1951, two visitors who had hired a rowing boat got too far out.
Unable to get back they drifted out to sea. When they did not return and could not be seen the owner raised an alarm. A...
Fishing Boats
FLAMBOROUGH.—On the 15th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., with a heavy sea, six of the fishing-boats were trying to reach the North Landing, but were unable to do so in consequence of the state of the wind and sea. The...
Life-Boat Lost Off Weston
A LIFE-BOAT on temporary duty at the Weston-super-Mare station parted from her moorings on the afternoon of the 12th April, and was driven on to rocks and was so severely damaged that she has had to be written off as a total...
Category: Articles
Ruffian (1)
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...
Crusier, of Hartlepool
On the 3rd December, in a fresh gale and heavy swell, with falls of snow and sleet, a brig was observed, apparently near the Goodwin Sands, with a signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both...