LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy (3)
DECEMBER 3RD. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A rubber dinghy had been reported at sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £22 7s..
A Dinghy (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 9th July, 1961, the police told the honorary secretary that a dinghy had been seen to capsize about a mile east of the Little Orme and that two men were clinging to...
Neuha, of Berwick on Tweed
On the 4th January, 1863, the ketch Neuha, of Berwick-upon-Tvveed, having got on shore on the Abertay Bank in a gale fromE.S.E., with foggy weather, the Mary Hartley life- boat, stationed at Broughty Ferry, pro- ceeded to her assistance....
A Motor Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.0 on the evening of the 30th of July, 1952, a man walked into the Dunmore life-boat station. He was a member of the crew of a small motor boat which had sprung a leak and sunk off Creadon Head. After...
A Rowing Boat
Aberdeen. At 10.21 p.m. on 4th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small rowing boat with a crew of two appeared to be in distress about half a mile east of Girdleness lighthouse.
The tide was at...
A Dinghy (3)
At 7.15 a.m. on 24th June, 1967, a report was received that a small dinghy had capsized with three people on board.
The life-boat John F.Kennedy slipped her moorings at 7.33 in a fresh south south westerly wind and a choppy...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.32 a.m. on 6th November, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile to a mile off shore, and that after the two people aboard her had managed to right...
A Motor Boat (2)
Plymouth, Devon.—At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that a motor boat needed help outside the breakwater. At 11.10 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out, with the honorary...
A Motor Boat (1)
Torbay, Devon. At 4.48 on the after- noon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a boat was in difficulties off Elbury beach at Torbay.
At 5.5 the life-boat Princess...
A Rowing Boat (2)
Youghal, and Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 21st of July, 1954, a woman told the Youghal life- boat coxswain that her husband and another man had put out from Youghal on...