LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
BOARDING BOAT VEERED TO STRANDED BOAT AppJedore, Devon. On the 2nd April, 1962, the coxswain of the life-boat and other fishermen had returned earlier than usual from salmon fishing because of bad weather. The salmon fishing season had just...
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...
A Motor Boat (1)
Plymouth, Devon.—At 12.44 early on the morning of the 21st of June, 1955, the Rame Head coastguard telephoned to say the police had reported that a motor boat, in which two youths had put out on a fishing trip from Torpoint, was missing. At...
A Speed Boat
Club safety boat rescues four An incident which took place in the Ribble Estuary on 13 August this year has earned Mr Richard Blackburn the thanks of the chief of operations after he launched the Ribble Cruising Club rescue boat to save the...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
A Flying Boat
St. Marys, Scilly Isles.—13th Octo- * ber, 1939. The coastguard had re- ported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approx- imately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched...
A Parachute (1)
OCTOBER 16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A parachute had been reported coming down, but nothing could be found.
It is possible that it may have been a mine dropped by enemy aeroplanes, as a great number were...
A Yacht (2)
Seven aboard liferaft AT 0115 in the early hours of Saturday, October 20, 1984, red flares were sighted in the Bramble Bank area of the Solent. By 0136, Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,...
A Motor Boat (2)
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.20 p.m.
on i6th July, 1966, a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off West Mouse and her occupants were seen waving an orange flag. There was a strong northerly breeze with a rough sea. The...
A Small Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.10 P.M. on the 3rd September the bowman saw a small boat, with two boys onboard, capsize about five hundred yards from the quay. A fresh west breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The life-boat motor mechanic...