LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue In Force 10 Gale
AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...
Category: Services
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
A Boat and a Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th August, 1961, the coxswain learnt that a small boat with one person on board was in difficulty about three quarters of a mile off shore in Red Wharf Bay. A helicopter was called, and...
A Dinghy (3)
Less than 20 minutes THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Berth ILB station saw a small sailing dinghy in the vicinity of some rocks about a quarter of a mile south west of the station; it was 1440 on Wednesday, July 21. While he watched, the...
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Girl swimmer MABLETHORPE LIFEBOAT CREW were asked to stand by on the afternoon of Sunday August 26, 1984, after Humber coastguard reported that there were a number of bathers near Tunnel Run outfall where, with the making tide, heavy surf...
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BY LIFE-BOAT AND AEROPLANE TO HOSPITAL Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 12th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health telephoned that a girl, dangerously ill with meningi- tis in Lerwick Hospital must be...
Two Rubber Dinghies
MAY 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.38 in the evening the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies, with five people on board, which had put out from Jaywick, were drifting helplessly three miles to the...
Vigilant
ARBROATH, N.B.—At about 8.30 A.M. on the 19th December, the schooner Vigilant, of Dundee, was seen approaching the harbour from the S.W., in a heavy sea and light wind from the S. At about 11 o'clock she was getting close to therocks,...
A Sea Cadet Whaler and Gypsy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a Sea Cadet whaler, with three men on board, was on the rocks near Seaforth radio station. At six o'clock the life-boat...
Pioneer
PENMON.—On the 25th January, during a strong gale from the N., while the disabled steamer Pioneer, of Dublin, was being towed into the Menai Straits, the hawsers of the tugs broke, and the vessel drove on Puffin Island. The Penmon Life-boat...