LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Motor Launch E.C. 83
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a naval motor launch had run ashore at Black Rock, Whitecliff Bay, and at 4.13 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty...
A Canoe
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 18th of Sep- tember, 1953, the coastguard tele- phoned that a canoe had capsized fifty yards off the harbour, and that a man was clinging to it. Five minutes later the life-boat Rosa...
Three Fishing Boats
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA St. Abbs, Berwickshire. On the morning of the 26th August, 1962, a gale warning was issued and the southerly breeze did in fact increase in force.
Three local fishing boats were at sea in...
None (7)
SICK WOMAN LANDED FROM ISLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 10.15 p.m. on Thursday the 15th of August, 1963, a nurse on Inishmaan asked that the life-boat take a seriously ill patient to hospital at Rossaveel. At 10.45 the life-boat Mary...
None (2)
Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 5.15 p.m. on 19th October, 1967, the coxswain was informed that there was a sick man on Tory Island.
Owing to weather conditions it was impossible for another boat to reach the island. The...
Merlin
At 9.20 p.m. on 5th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat was firing red flares two miles from the lookout. Ten minutes later the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a calm sea and an ebbing tide. At 9.55 she found the...
A Dinghy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.20 p.m. on 12th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties about half a mile north of the harbour.
The...
Margaret and James
COBLE IN DANGER At 9.29 p.m. on 28th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that two red flares had been observed dose inshore near Speeton look-out. There was a slight sea and it was one hour after low water.
At...
A Sailing Dinghy (8)
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.32 p.m.
on igth July, 1964, the coastguard heard that a sailing dinghy with three people on board had capsized one mile north-east of Skegness pier. At 2.38 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Ability
HAD GONE AGROUND Girvan, Ayrshire. At 5 a.m. on nth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had gone aground on Ailsa Craig. There was a moderate sea with a fresh southwesterly wind and it was low water...