LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ocean Wave
DOUBLE ACCIDENT TO YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At ten minutes past two on the morning of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message from the Needles coastguard that a motor yacht was lying at anchor two...
New Steel 70-Foot Life-Boat
A steel life-boat, which is the first of her kind to be built for the Institution, was completed at the yards of Messrs. Yarrow & Co. Ltd. of Scotstoun, Glasgow, in September. She is the first vessel to be built for the RNLI in steel,...
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Conchita
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 8.20 a.m.
on 23rd February, 1966, while working on the foreshore, the coxswain noticed a yacht aground on the Lavan sands with a man on board, and realizing that the yacht Conchita would be in danger...
Hassel
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...
Armandeche
DOVER COASTGUARD received information from Cap Gris Nez at 1315 on Tuesday June 29, 1982, that the 50ft French trawler Armandeche was aground on the Goodwin Sands, north north east of South Goodwin Lightvessel.
At 1325 the...
Cornish Appeal
Cornish Appeal (from page 55) over to local branches at the end of the appeal. Careful instructions should be given about emptying boxes every three months in order to reduce loss by theft.
'A midnight matinee is well...
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Jeanine of Hamble
South Eastern Division Catamaran in Distress A WELL-REEFED CATAMARAN making heavy weather two-and-a-half miles off St Margaret's, Kent, was seen by the Coastguard at 9.10 a.m. on Sunday, October 21, 1973. Dover lifeboat station was put...
La Libertine
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At 3.26 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the life-boat coxswain that the French yacht La Libertine, with five men and two girls aboard, had dragged her anchor and was driving ashore between...
Louisa
^Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter...
Candy
Early warning saves three The eagle eyes and quick thinking of RNLI tractor driver Philip Eaglen helped to ensure that a father and his two sons were rescued before it was too late.
At 3.30pm on 2 September 2000, Philip was...