LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy George
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.
1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...
Skerryvore
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 6.30 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1960, information was received that a yacht was aground in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat City of Glasgow 11 put out in a fresh-to-strong north-north-westerly breeze...
Bonnie Lass
ASHORE ON ROCKS At 10.12 a.m. on iTth June, 1965, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Kindred Star told the coxswain of the life-boat that the motor fishing vessel Bonnie Lass was ashore on the Sheugh Rocks about half a mile north of the...
A Canoe
Abcrsoch, Caernarvonshire. At 4.35 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the acting honorary secretary was informed that a canoe had capsized 500 yards south-east of Benor Head. At 4.40 the inshore rescue boat launched in a strong south-westerly breeze...
A Dinghy (4)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.35 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people in a dinghy fitted with an outboard motor were shouting for help off the south beach.
At...
Sailing Dinghies
On the afternoon of the 20th of June.
1959, the life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was on a routine exercise near Gettiswick Bay, Angle Point, when several sailing dingh- ies taking part in the Milford...
Good buys
What’s the best way to beat the January blues? Why, to hit the January sales of course!
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Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat and an Outboard Motor Boat
TOWED TWO At 3.57 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, the police told the coxswain that a vessel was on fire off Epple Bay. There was a moderate sea with a fresh southerly breeze. The tide was one hour past high water. At 4.10 the life-boat North...
Coxswain William Robinson, of Newbiggin
Coxswain William Robinson, of Newbiggin, Northumberland, suddenly collapsed and died on 31st December last, just after he had handed over the Lifeboat to his successor. He had been Coxswain for fourteen years, and previous to that had served...
Category: Obituaries
A Catamaran
LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER SEARCH FOR CATAMARAN Wells, Norfolk. At 1.28 a.m. on Monday the 15th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with three men on board was missing from Brancaster. There was a...