LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Fishing Boat (1)
DECEMBER 3RD. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At 1 A.M. news was received that a motor fishing boat needed help about six miles S.E. of Helvick. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was choppy.
At 2 A.M. the motor...
A Schooner
4th May. A schooner had been dragging her anchors, but she was taken in tow by a tug.— Rewards, £12 12s. 6d..
A Yacht
Dover, Kent.—25th October. A yacht had been reported in distress, but a tug took her in tow.—Rewards, £2 17s..
A Dinghy
Exmoutb, Devonshire.—26th May. A small dinghy was reported as not havingreturned, but after an unsuccessful search it was found that she had been at anchor in the river.—Rewards, £22 8s..
A BargeYacht
Margate. Kent.—21st May, 1938. A barge-yacht had carried away her boom, but she went on her way to Whitstable without help.—Rewards, £9 18s..
A Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who...
A Barge
13th December. A barge was in diffi- culties, but managed to reach safety without help.—Rewards, Blakeney, £26 17s. 6d.; Sheringham, £78 15s. 9d.
(See page 201.).
A Seabat
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.15 p.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a seabat had capsized five to six hundred yards off the Clock tower.
The boy on board was unable to right her. The...
A Vessel
JANUARY 8TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Information had been received that a vessel was drifting twenty miles west of Dunnet Head, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £22 1s. 6d..
Eniskillen: Five-star fundraising
Five young members of Lough Erne Yacht Club went the extra mile for the RNLI last year, when they held a mini triathlon to raise lifesaving funds. By paddling, cycling and running, they raised £310 for Enniskillen Lifeboat Station. Emma...
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