LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (6)
DUNKIRK MAN At 3.46 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a dinghy was in difficulties on the East Winner. At 3.48 the IRB was launched in a slight south westerly breeze and calm sea. The tide was flooding. The IRB...
A Motor Boat
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was stranded on a sandbank a mile and three quarters south-west of...
A Small Dinghy
AUGUST 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 2.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a man adrift in a small dinghy. He had only one oar, and was rapidly being blown out to sea by a strong off-shore wind. At 2.30 the life-boat’s motor...
Challenge
The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens saved the crew of three hands of the barge Challenge, of Weymouth, during a strong N.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 12th April. The barge, whilst bound from Portland to London with a cargo...
Newlands
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — While the wind was blowing from S.S.W., with the force of a strong breeze to a moderate gale, very squally, with a somewhat rough sea, and rain, on the 13th April, a signal of distress was shown by the ketch Newlands,...
Casco
Also on the 22nd November, at 3 P.M., in reply to her signals of distress, this Life-boat boarded the Russian barque Caseo, of Bargo, which vessel was aground on the South Sand, it blowing hard from the N.E., with considerable sea. At the...
A Dinghy and a Sailing Dinghy
TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
Seabird and Smuggler II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.38 p.m.
on 2nd October, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified that a yacht was in difficulties 200 yards east of Clacton Pier. At 9.55 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring launched in a slight...
Christiana Davies
On the 18th March, during a strong N.E. gale and a very heavy sea, the new Motor Life-boat John Taylor Cardwell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Christiana Davies, of Barrow. The vessel, whilst bound to Dublin with a cargo of...
Fishing Boats (3)
Arbroath, Angus.—The local fishing fleet put out during the early morning of the 23rd November, 1938, in fine weather. Later on a S.E. wind sprang up and rapidly increased to gale force. The sea grew very rough, with heavy rain, sleet and...