LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joy
MAY 29TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
The life-boat coxswain was told by the coastguard at about 8 P.M. that a motor vessel was in difficulties about a mile to the S.S.E.
The weather was fine, but the sea was...
Fishing Boats
ABBBOATH.—At about 11 o'clock, on the morning of the 10th October, the attention of the coxswain of the Life-boat was drawn to the dangerous position of two amateur fishing boats outside the harbour bar. The wind was blowing a strong...
Mari
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
Mervic (3)
Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution and by Shore-boats during 1941 During the year life-boats were launched 747 times. Of these launches 481 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the enemy or from other...
Category: Services
Dawlish
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, during a dense fog, the coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Dawlish, of London, that she was ashore at North Bishop, At one o'...
Aires
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in diffi- culties about three miles off Penmaen- mawr. The life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella...
A Motor Launch (1)
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At two in the morning the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was ashore in Hoy Sound one hundred yards north-east of Ness Beacon and in need of help.
A...
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Sea Eagle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1954, the police at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the motor cruiser Sea Eagle, of Norwich, with three young men on board, had run ashore in Breydon Water and...