LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prospecto
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At about 1.40 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, a motor fishing vessel was seen making heavy weather south of Bridlington.
A strong, squally, east breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The vessel...
A Rubber Dinghy
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 1.38 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, a message was received that a youth was being blown seawards in a rubber dinghy three-quarters of a mile off Coldingham Sands. Accordingly, at 1.45 the life-boat J....
Carlotta
MAY 5TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
Early in the afternoon the auxiliary yacht Carlotta left Glasson Dock, with a party of five aboard, for a pleasure trip to the Isle of Man. She got into difficulties and anchored, and was...
Straight Flush
Margate, Kent. At 11.25 on the morning of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore near the South Margate buoy and needed help. At 11.38 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No....
Korab II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned a message from the Cross Sand lightvessel that a motor fishing vessel had broken tlown about a mile to the...
Orlando
DISMASTED CRAFT Minehead, Somerset. At 12.50 p.m.
on i2th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran had been dismasted four miles off the Foreland.
At i.20 the life-boat Sarah...
Lyra
HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.
and a heavy sea. The boat...
Westward
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.24 on the after- noon of the 29th of September, 1957, the east pier watchman reported that a yacht was aground on Brake Sands and was signalling for help. At 1.35 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a slight...
A Belgian Trawler
TOW ROPE PARTED Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 11.20 p.m. on 9th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler was towing another Belgian trawler whose engine had broken down off St. Annes Head. The tow tope...
Naming Ceremony: Augustine Courtauld Poole
A force 6 to 7 wind was blowing when Poole's new 44' class lifeboat was named Augustine Courtauld after the well-known explorer by his sister Lady Rayner at Poole Harbour Y.C.
Marina on Wednesday, May 7; caught up...
Category: Inaugurations