LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vanadit
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — About 7.30 on the morning of the 23rd February a vessel was observed in distress on the east side of Sunderland Bank, Morecambe Bay. A strong W.S.W. gale was blowing, which steadily increased, accompanied by a very...
Brunette
On the evening of the 6th Sep- tember the weather was calm, but there was a heavy swell on the bar, and the yacht Brunette, of New- castle-on-Tyne, with four young people on board, three brothers and their sister, was seen to be drifting...
Evening Star
At about 7 o'clock on the following morning flares were shown by a vessel in distress in Corton Eoads. The wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough at the time. The Lowestoft Lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and found...
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...
Venus (1)
SOUTHEND AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.
Signal guns having been fired by the lightships on the evening of the 10th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert put off from Southend and the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched...
Spider
RYE, SUSSEX. — The yacht Spider, of Ramsgate, brought up at 11.30 P.M. on the 2nd June, about a mile off Camber.
The wind was blowing strongly from the E.N.E., and the vessel was lying too near the shore, so that on the...
Zircon
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...
Cash Concerto
The BT Scottish Ensemble lovingly brought the genius of Bach and Bartock to the ears of 220 guests at the Three Counties Gala concert in April.. - View image in PDF
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Hassel (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
A Small Yacht
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, information was received from a resident of Three Beaches that a small yacht, anchored off Goodrington Beach, appeared to be in difficulties and in a dangerous position. There was a...