LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
J.G.4.
At 3.52 p.m. on I3th July, 1967, a message was received indicating that the motor yacht J.G.4. had broken down about half a mile off Frinton and was taking in water fast. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the...
Jenny Rose
Selsey, Sussex. At 6 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been observed a half a mile south of Chichester Harbour. A R.A.F.
helicopter from No. 22...
Ranger of Lune
St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 2.56 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Ranger of Lune was in difficulties ten miles north-west of South Bishop's rock, as her engine had broken down....
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...
Avocet
IN A TIDE RACE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.28 p.m. on 7th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was reported to be in distress off South Stack. Her two occupants had been waving. It was one hour before...
Lilian
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.43 in the afternoon a message was received from the signal station at Spurn Point that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties on the Binks. A south-east wind was blowing, and the sea was...
R.N.L.I. Medals for Irb Service
Mr. Robert Stewart and Mr. Andrew Scott of Amble have become the first men ever to be awarded medals for gallantry by the R.N.L.I. for a service carried out in one of the Institution's inshore rescue boats. The service was a combined...
Category: Services
Matam II
French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...
Whitby: the Lifeboat Station and Her People By Joan Davies
A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...
Category: Articles
Psyche
On Sunday, the 14th August, the yacht Psyche, of Dublin, drove ashore near the Flash Light, on the north bank of the Liffey, during a heavy squall in a westerly gale, and as the position of tho occupants was OIK; of great danger the...