LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Islander
At ii.10 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had capsized one mile off Tregantle Fort. The IRB was launched at 11.22 and also the harbour master's launch. However, conditions outside the harbour forced the IRB...
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Longhope, Orkneys.—On the morning of the 21st February, a resident of Heckness reported that it was necessary to get his son to Scapa in order that he might be operated upon for appendicitis, but that the conditions were too bad for any...
Sea Gipsy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a telephone message was received that the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had broken down six miles south-south- east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the life-boat Euphrosyne...
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1951, a man telephoned from Helms- dale that he had taken three men out in a coble to shoot sea birds and landed them on a cliff west of Berrie- dale Head. A fresh...
Black and Tan
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 11.35 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956.
the local look-out reported that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting out to sea. The life- boat Watkin Williams was launched...
A Canoe
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.
The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
The S.S. Parkwood
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.33 on the morning of the 4th of November, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the S.S.
Parkwood, of Middlesbrough, with a crew of fifteen, had run ashore on the...
An Aeroplane (4)
_ Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—3rd November, 1939. It had been re- ported that what looked like an aero- plane on fire had fallen into the sea.
A few seconds later a parachute landed in the same position. It was found later...
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Knife to see you? •opte in rroubte are usually pleased to see a lifeboat, but not so for a man ^B to evade the police in Heme Bay in August. Holding a knife, he cycled, onto the sea and swam out. The man, who was not training for a...
Fanny Bailey
DUNDALK, Co. LOUTH.—On the 19th January, the schooner Fanny Bailey, of Dundalk, bound from Troon to that port with coal and iron, stranded on the bar during a gale from S.E. and heavy sea.
The Stockport Sunday School...