LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Teddy Bear
Walmer, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Teddy Bear, which was two miles east of the Goodwin Fork buoy, had engine trouble and her crew...
A Boat (2)
Hartlepool, Durham. At five o'clock on the morning of the 27th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen drifting about three miles east- south-east of Hartlepool. Nobody could be seen...
A Motor Boat (1)
BOAT WAS OVERDUE Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men who had gone in a canoe to help a motor boat with an engine breakdown had been away for a long time. Although...
Beatrice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 6.51 on the evening of the 20th of September, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a local fishing boat was anchored south of the har- bour entrance. At 7.2 the life-boat Louise Stephens was...
Andante
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.53 p.m. on 18th May, 1969, the coastguard reported that a motor boat, on passage between West Mersea and East Shoebury, was overdue. The m.v. City of Capetown reported sighting a boat aground on the Maplin sands...
Dolphin, Alex S. Sorbas
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 5.3 p.m. on 7th July, 1967, it was learnt that the sailing dinghy Dolphin was missing on passage from Port Navas to Restronquet.
The life-boat Constance and Crawford Conybeare, which had launched...
Windsurfer overcome
18 October: The Mumbles Just as preparations for the Mumbles Oyster Festival were taking place, a visitor spotted a windsurfer in difficulty half a mile out to sea. The volunteers launched their inshore lifeboat...
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Emma
On 4th December at 12.30 P.M. the Motor Life- boat Mary Scott was launched to the help of the motor fishing boat Emma, of Southwold, with three men on board, which had been seen by the Coastguard to be flying a distress signal about one mile...
Millom Castle
About 2.30 in the morning of the 15th March, ! when a whole gale from S. was raging, the Life-boat, William and Mary Devey, was launched in response to signals of I distress from the schooner Millom Castle.
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Isa Simpson
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. — At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1951, Johnshaven sent a message that the local motor fishing boat Isa Simpson was disabled by an engine breakdown off Johnshaven. At 2.10 the...