LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel was reported to need help off Skerryvore Lighthouse, but no definite position could be given ; visibility was nil, and the life-boat abandoned the search. A second message was received that...

Launch! The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat, The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33), a 52' Barnett housed slipway boat built in 1960, was named by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh on July 7, 1961. She has launched on service 56 times and saved 58... - View image in PDF

JULY 6TH - .WALMER, KENT. At 12.50 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a sailing boat with five people on board was flying an oilskin in her rigging near Deal Bank Buoy. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough...

Torbay, South Devon - At 2.30 p.m.on 18th October, 1969, information was received that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Babbacombe.

The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 2.50 in a fresh...

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Barrow, Lancashire.—At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1952, a motor-cyclist arrived at the life-boat station and reported that a canoe with a boy clinging to it was being carried out to sea off Newbiggin, about five miles...

SEEN FROM TRAIN Wicklow. At 12.45 a-m- on 25tn October, 1963, a driver of a train bound from Dublin to Wexford saw flares and a flashing light at sea a few miles north of Wicklow. He made an unscheduled stop, cut the engine and made his way...

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