LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sailing Dinghies
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At approximately 4.17 p.m. on 30th August, 1965, while the honorary secretary was watching a dinghy race, a sailing dinghy was capsized by a squall and her two occupants thrown into the water. The sailing club...
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Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...
Veloce
Nov. 16TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At A.M. the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that a steamer had stranded near Dungeness Point. A moderate W. to S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
At 5.30 A.M. the motor...
The Drifters Loranthus, of Banff, and The Harvest Reaper, of Buckie
DECEMBER 7TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 in the morning the life-boat coxswain heard an SOS call.
There was a dense fog. A nasty swell was running with a southerly wind which freshened later into a gale. The motor...
Sally
JUNE 11TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.10 P.M. a message was received from the police that a motor boat was in difficulties off Seacombe Stage and needed immediate help. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing with a choppy sea. The No. 2...
Shamrock
— Soon after 1 P.M. on the 27th June, the Coxswain of the Life-boat was called, and in- formed by telephone that a fishing smack was aground on the Cross Ridge.
The sea was rough and a strong N.E.
breeze...
Themis
At 5.15 in the morning of the 23rd February, the Coastguard reported that he had been watching a vessel for some time, and apparently she was on the North Rock.
The crew of the Life-boat Faith were assembled at the...
A Small Yacht
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 4th September the Needles Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a small yacht had capsized about one mile west of the Needles. The motor life-boat B.A .S.P.
was launched...
The American Steamer Samuel Parker
APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Information was picked up by North Foreland Radio and passed through the coastguard to the life-boat station that a steamer was aground off Great Yarmouth and in need of tugs. At 7.11 in...
Story Of Success
SOS day 2008, on 25 January, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who took part and supported the RNLI’s national fundraising day.
Money is still coming in, so the Lifeboat can’t announce a figure for the total...
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