LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Launch (2)
SEPT. 10TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Information had been received that a yacht was in difficulties on the North Bank and a small motor launch aground. Both vessels were on a lee shore, with a strong S.W. gale blowing, and a...
A Ship’s Life-Boat
DEC. 13TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 1.30 P.M. a message was received from Ross Lighthouse that a ship’s life-boat had been seen drifting a mile and a half south of the lighthouse. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.15 P.M. the...
NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT MUSEUM
The R.N.L.I's charter doe* not make provision Tor the preservation uf old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
Category: Advertisement
A Sailing Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.46 on the evening of the 8th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small sailing boat had capsized a mile off Lancing, and that four people had been in the water for about twenty...
Three Aeroplanes
JULY 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. Information had been received that three aeroplanes had fallen into the sea. Many the men were away fishing, but a crewwas obtained, and with the help of women the life-boat was launched. At the time an attack...
Two Dinghies (6)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
A Motor Fishing Vessel
NOVEMBER 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing vessel had been drifting, but was taken in tow by a tug. - Rewards, £9 6s..
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
Category: Articles
Past Times (1)
Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...