LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
MARCH 15TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A fishing boat was thought to be flying a signal, but the object was a fishing basket and not a signal for help. - Rewards, £7 19s..
Past and Present
6O years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT of 1938 THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats. 137 : Pulling & Sailing Life-boats. 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31 si. 1938 65.625 A difficult launch at Exmouth...
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Weather Forecasts and Storm Warnings
IT will have been observed, and doubtless with regret by many of our readers, that in the early part of last month (December, 1866) Government notified their intention of, at least for a season, discontinuing the well-known Storm Warnings to...
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A Small Boat
Teignmouth, Devon.—At 3.25 P.M. on the 17th March the coastguard reported that a small boat, with one man on board, had been carried out of the harbour by the strong ebb tide, and was in difficulty. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
A Rowing Boat
On the after- noon of the 25th June the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with six apparently inefficient persons on board was making towards harbour. Shortly afterwards a thick fog settled down and it was decided to send out the motor...
A Small Boat (2)
Moelfre, Anglesey. — Shortly after noon on the 31st July a small boat, which had put out from Benllech with two men on board, was seen to be in difficulties. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and the boat was in great danger...
A Motor Launch (1)
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland.— Just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a motor launch, in trying to enter the harbour in a fresh northerly breeze, with a heavy swell, had run...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Minehead, Somerset. — At noon on the 5th of August, 1949, the police reported that two men in a rubber dinghy were be.ing blown out to sea from St. Audries Bay, and the life-boat Kate Greatorex put out at 12.30. A light south-westerly breeze...
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk-At 10.59 a.m.
on llth May, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing dinghy with two people on board was being carried away by the ebb tide and appeared to be out of control. The life-boat...
A Yacht (4)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.50 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a yacht was aground on East Barrow sands. She was not showing any distress signals but in view of the weather conditions the lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at...