LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lucy (1)
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
None (1)
Fall from cliff THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Abersoch ILB station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1701 on Thursday August 23, 1979, that a boy had fallen from the cliff at Llanbedrog Head, two miles north east of the station. The...
None (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 2.46 p.m.
on 9th February, 1970, it was learnt that four children were cut off by the tide between Sandsend Ness and Keldersteel point. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 3 o'clock in...
Interwave (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...
None (1)
CREWMAN SUPPORTS MAN IN SEA WHEN on 17th January, 1971, news was received that a man had fallen over the cliff about half a mile west of Anvil Point lighthouse, the Swanage, Dorset, life-boat R.L.P.
launched and made...
None (1)
Salcombe, Devon - At 1.5 p.m. on 6th September, 1967, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a swimmer had been seen in difficulties off Rickham sands. The life-boat Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings at 1.11 in a fresh...
None (1)
Stuck in mud A MAN stuck in the mud at the mouth of the River Taff was reported to Swansea Coastguard by Cardiff Police at 2322 on Sunday August 24, 1980. Three men had been in a boat that sank. Two had managed to reach shore, but the third...
D.U.K.W. (1)
Cromer, Norfolk - At 3.15 p.m. on nth December, 1966, two flares were reported from a D.U.K.W. which was about a mile off Cromer east beach. The No. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King was launched at 3.27 in a light south westerly wind...
Farringay (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire - At n p.m. on 2ist March, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Farringay was aground on Salters Bank and a tug was awaiting high water to tow her off. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the...
Success (1)
At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...