LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 11.30 a.m. on 23rd May, 1965, the crew of the inshore rescue boat which was on exercise saw a sailing dinghy with two people on board capsize one and a half miles south of the station. The IRB made for the capsized dinghy...
A Rowing Boat (3)
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the collier Effra had sighted a small rowing boat with two men on board which needed help four miles north-east...
A Dinghy (9)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.25 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in difficulties in the Sound of Arisaig, off Glenuig. The life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her moorings at 5.35 in a fresh south south...
A Motor Boat
Swanage, Dorset - At 2.32 p.m. on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four skin-divers were in difficulties off Ballard head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a strong south westerly breeze and a...
A Tiger Moth Aircraft
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.32 on the evening of the 30th of March, 1958, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Tiger Moth aircraft had crashed in the River Mersey, off Speke airfield, five hundred yards off shore....
A Sailing Dinghy
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah...
A Dinghy (1)
Porthdinllaen,Caernar vonshire. At 4.33 p.m. on 5th August, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that a small boat had been reported in difficulties in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea, about one mile north-east of Trevor. The tide was...
A Salmon Coble
Aberdeen. At 11.25 a-rn. on lyth February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a salmon coble appeared to be in difficulties off Aliens. There was a moderate breeze from the north by east with a rough, confused sea. The...
A Motor Cruiser (2)
TOW BY LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Life-boat on passage. On the 13th July, 1962, the reserve life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was on passage from Kirkcudbright to Portpatrick. There was a light south-westerly breeze and a smooth sea. At 10.10 in the...
A Motor Fishing Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—About 12.20 in the afternoon, on the llth March, 1950, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat appeared to be in diffi- culties in Skerry Roads. At 12.26 he reported that the boat was flashing a light; at...