LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fortunatus and Pilot Me
Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 21st February, and by noon all of tibem except the motor fishing boats Fortwnatus and Pilot Me had returned to harbour. Later a moderate N.N.E.
gale sprang up,...
A Rubber Dinghy
RUBBER DINGHY CARRIED OUT TO SEA Barmouth, Merionethshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1947, an aircraftsman got into difficulties while bathing. He found himself un- able to swim ashore and got into arubber dinghy, but he was...
Sea Air
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a boat appeared to be in difficulties between West Mersea and Bradwell, and at half past one the motor life-boat Edward Z....
A Canoe
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 3.5 p.m. on 8th February, 1970, it was learnt that a man was clinging to a capsized canoe and drifting off shore in a northerly direction.
The life-boat Edian Courtauld slipped her moorings at...
Cogswell & Harrison Ltd
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Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)
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Golden Way
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.6 p.m. on I4th January, 1967, a vessel lying very close to the shore at Murkle was seen to have fired distress flares and rockets.
The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service...
Sunlit Waters
Plymouth, Devon - At 12.20 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a large open fishing boat was reported to be wallowing heavily and making no progress about three quarters of a mile off the fog station. No distress signals had been seen but there was...
Sujan III
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 1.40 a.m. on 14th May, 1967, news was received that a small yacht was drifting off the Sizewell bank with her engines out of action. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 2.10 in a fresh north...