LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fagotin II
FRENCH YACHT DISMASTED Bembridge, Isle of Wight. A French yacht was seen to be in difficulties with a broken mast two miles north west of the Nab Tower at 8.51 p.m. on 9th July, 1965. She had anchored near the Dean Tail buoy. The life-boat...
Captain Gerald Rodger Cousins, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.)
Captain Gerald Rodger Cousins, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.), died on 3Oth May, 1965, aged 71. He entered the Navy in 1911 and served in destroyers in the First World War, at Gallipoli and later with the Grand Fleet. In March 1931 he was appointed...
Category: Obituaries
No Mystery for Poirot!
No mystery for Poirot! Despite the fact that they were filming a 'whodunnit' there was no mystery about the benefits to Salcombe lifeboat when a London Weekend Television film crew spent two weeks in the town.
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Category: Photographs
A Firefly Sailing Dinghy
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of June, 1954, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that a Firefly sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, had capsized off Irish- man's Spit at the eastern end of the Menai Straits....
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 8.4 on the evening of the 18th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff near Portpatrick. At 8.14 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out in a slight...
A Small Sailing Boat
— On the afternoon of the 27th July a strong and squally N. wind suddenly got up, with a rough sea. A small sailing boat, with one man on board, was seen about two and a half miles S.E. of the Gimblet Rock, making very little headway...
Several Yachts
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 in the afternoon, on Sunday the 16th of July, 1950, the honorary secretary telephoned the coastguard about several yachts racing in the bay. As the weather was bad and the probability of some of them...
Ixous
BELGIAN TRAWLER AGROUND AND DAMAGED Caister, Norfolk. At 4.15 a.m. on Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, the Gorleston coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel appeared to be aground on North Scroby sands. At 5.20 the life...
Cover Picture
Sir Samuel Kelly, the 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat on temporary duty at Courtmacsherry Harbour tows in Casse Tete V during the Fastnet storm. In all that day, Tuesday August 14, 1979, Courtmacsherry lifeboat, under the command of Coxswain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Resurga
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 28th August a barge was observed riding at anchor about a quarter of a mile from the shore between. Orfordness and Aldeburgh. She was labouring heavily, with the sea washing over...