LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal Gate
AFTER A COLLISION At 6.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the motor vessel Royal Gate had been in collision one mile west of Chequer buoy and was making for the beach in a moderate...
A Dinghy and a Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
John Bull
DE C . 8 T H . - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9 A.M. a message was received that the motor fishing boat John Bull, of Torquay, which had gone to sea the previous morning, had not returned. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 9.45 A.M....
Commander
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HOYLAKE , CHESHIRE. At 3.28 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a small fishing boat, at anchor, in a dangerous position in Hilbre Swash with seas breaking over her. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
H.M. Minesweeper Wedgeport
OCTOBER 21ST. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 6.50 A.M. the Tara coastguard reported a vessel on the rocks at the old lighthouse on South Rock, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 7.30 A.M. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing,...
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Sadler Yachts
The award-winning British 34-footer." Sadler 34. The Sadler 34 is a rather special performance cruiser.
For one thing, she's British through and through.
For another, she's quite unsinkable. A...
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New Year Honours
A number of RNLI people have been named on HM The Queen’s New Year Honours list:
• OBE: Richard Edward Dominic Langford, Chairman of the RYA and Ex-Officio Member of the RNLI Council, for services to sailing and...
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A Cutter from H.M.S. Marlborough
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Ceremony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter to...
Health & Home
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