LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Xema
RUDDER WAS BROKEN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.15 P-m- on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a red flare about 2^ miles west of the harbour. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a...
Armorel
Appledore, Devon. At 10.10 a.m. on 2nd July, 1964, while the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker was on a combined exercise with the Royal Air Force, the sailing yacht Armorel, about three miles south-west by west of Fairway buoy, was seen to be...
Two Cobles
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 11.30 a.m. on igth March, 1965, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that two cobles from Craster had been unable to enter Craster harbour and were lying off...
A Boat
Out of retirement!Once a lifeboat, always a lifeboat - or at least ready to help when needed. The 52ft Barnett class exlifeboat Ramsey Dyce, formerly stationed at Aberdeen and Lochinver, was supposed to have retiredin!985butreturned briefly...
The Launch D.421049
NOVEMBER 26TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.5 in the afternoon the coastguard asked for the life-boat to go out and escort in the naval harbour launch. A westsouth- west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell on the harbour bar....
Carew Belle
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a small yacht in distress one mile to the south-east of Tenby lookout. A strong north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was choppy....
S.S.. Princess, H.M. Trawler Dandora
JANUARY 11TH . - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard that distress signals had been received from the S.S.. Princess, in a position near Elwill Bay.
An easterly breeze was...
The Llandudno Fishing Boat Pilot No. 3, and the Fishing Rowing Boat Eira
JANUARY 27TH. - LLANDUDNO,CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 4.45 P .M. a message came from the coastguard that the Llandudno fishing boat Pilot No. 3 was in distress two miles east of the pier head, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards...
The Danish Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg
on 21st Dec., saved 6 men from the Danish brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg..
Danube, of Belfast
on 6th March, saved 17 men from the ship Danube, of Belfast..