LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (2)
FEBRUARY 26TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. An unknown trawler had been reported apparently in difficulties S.E. of Cape1 Island, but nothing could be found.
The life-boat crew were called from the Lenten...
A Speed Boat
Speedboat sinks ON THE MORNING of Easter Sunday April 7, 1985, Brixham coastguard received a report from a member of the public that a speedboat had sunk on Pole Sands and that there were some people in the water. Fifteen minutes later, at...
A Motor Boat
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 1st of August, 1954, twelve members of an angling club went in a motor boat to the Calf of Man, but during the afternoon the weather grew worse and prevented them from returning. At three...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 3.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized one mile south of Sizewell, and at 3.50 the No. 1 life-boat, Abdy Beauclerk,...
A Dinghy (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire - At noon on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a dinghy was in difficulties off the Derby bathing pool. The lifeboat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 12.13 in a near gale force westerly wind with a...
A Boat (1)
MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there...
A Motor Yacht
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the life-boat mechanic reported that a yacht was in difficulties two miles west of the life-boat station. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 10.45 in a...
A Yacht (3)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.56 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a message re- ceived from the police that a yacht had capsized three quarters of a mile off Lee-over-Sand at St....
A Speed Boat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 11.30 on the morning of the 30th of March, 1958, the coxswain was told that a speedboat had broken down. Half-an- hour later he saw the boat a mile and a half south-east of the life-boat slipway.
At...
A Rubber Tyre
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that some people were drifting out to sea on a rubber tyre off Walcott. At 3.55 the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. There was...