LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gypsy
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the steamer Catherine Hawksfield, on passage from the Tyne to Dover, picked up the motor boat Gypsy, sixteen to twenty miles S.E.
of Hartlepool. The Gypsy was towing the...
Star Song
RESCUE FROM YACHT AT THIRD ATTEMPT Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.27 on the morning of the 16th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in •difficulties two miles north-east-bynoith of Grimsby. The life...
Hamburg
AIDED SURVEY SHIP Peel, Isle of Man. At 4.55 p.m. on 6th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British survey ship Hamburg had sent out a distress call stating that she had run into a strong south-westerly gale...
Madonna
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat with three men on board was firing red flares off Rossall Point.
At 9.35 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
A Small Sailing Boat
On the morning of the 7th January a small sailing boat was capsized by a squall when trying to sail out of the Camber and her crew of two were thrown into the water.
The accident was seen from the motor life-boat and...
Edna
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—Shortly after midnight on the 4th of Septem- ber, 1956, the local harbourmaster reported that the motor fishing vessel Edna, with three men on board, was long overdue from a fishing trip be- tween Langness and...
Celerity, Fisher Boy & Courage
On the even- ing of the 27th February, the honorary secretary was warned that the motor fishing boat Celerity, of Buckie, "had just arrived in the harbour and reported that the Wick fishing boat Fisher Boy, with a crew of five, was in...
A Motor Boat
SEPTEMBER 23RD. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
A woman and a boy were out in a motor boat when the engine failed and the boat went ashore off Moor Sands. The woman climbed up the cliffs and summoned help. The lifeboat went out, but the...
Your shout
The Editor responds:
Great minds think alike Mr Dean! See page 46. And from this quarter, all seven versions of Compass are available online too at...
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Atlantic 21 Mobile Dock (From Page 83)
been developed jointly by Mike Bigland (Preparations) Ltd., an engineering firm in Knighton Powys, Wales, and the RNLI. It is encased in a watertight, custom built steel and armour plated glass hull—reminiscent of a huge goldfish tank. This...
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