LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy and Paddy B
Hastings, Sussex. At 4.7 p.m. on 3151 July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy, in company with a cabin cruiser, was flying a distress signal and firing flares. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 4.20 in a moderate...
Lamorna
Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.
She put out an anchor to await help...
A Boat
Out of retirement!Once a lifeboat, always a lifeboat - or at least ready to help when needed. The 52ft Barnett class exlifeboat Ramsey Dyce, formerly stationed at Aberdeen and Lochinver, was supposed to have retiredin!985butreturned briefly...
A Boat (4)
AUGUST 13TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY At 8.5 P.M. information was received that a small boat was out of control and drifting out to sea. A strong S.W. wind was blowing with a moderate sea, and darkness was approaching. The motor life-boat G.W....
A Pram Dinghy
Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...
A Dinghy
Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa/Kirkwall was told at 12.19 p.m. on l l t h July that a flat bottomed dinghy was missing from Weyland bay. It was thought that a Norwegian seaman was on board.
The IRB carried aboard the life-boat...
Portrush
Godzilla looks as if she is beginning to feel the pace. It is hardlv surprising as she has had to battle against a strong northerly wind on her way into Portrush harbour, before turning for the finishing tine to overall first place in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Doris, of Shoreham
JUNE 27TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About four in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a man was waving a red flag on a yacht which was dragging her anchor off Holland Sluice. The motor lifeboat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty...
Hopeful
ENGINE FAILED AND NO SAIL Seaham, Durham.—At 11.56 in the morning of the 5th of July, 1947, the coastguard reported information from Hawkthorn Towers that a b"oat was.
adrift and in need of help, and the motor...
Havlyn
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.26 a.m.
on 2yth November, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that the Norwegian motor vessel Havlyn was in need of assistance, having a forty-five degree list nine miles from the South Stack...