LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zingari
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 10.5 a.m. on 13th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a flare had been seen off Sully island. The lifeboat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 10.15 in a south westerly gale with a rough sea. The...
Bronwin (1)
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.28 p.m. on 6th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen off the Martello tower at Seaford. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was...
Mona
At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...
Roimbahn
Fire at sea 'Very competently handled,' was the verdict of Portpatrick's honorary secretary after his crew put out a blaze aboard the yacht Roimbahn.
with three men and two dogs aboard, on 24...
Dover:
Dover: On Saturday September 10, 1983, a day of north-westerly gales and rough seas, Dover's 50ft Thames lifeboat Rotary Service, under the command of Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins, was just returning to harbour from one... - View image in PDF
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Pleasant Mirth
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 11.50 on the night of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man living in Marston had reported that a yacht appeared to be in a very dangerous position off Blakeney Point. The...
Guisane
St. Helier, Jersey. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the assistant honorary secretary of a report received from St. Brelade's Bay that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties west of...
Freya
YACHT FOUND WITH HEAVY LIST Margate, Kent. At 5.48 on the evening of Wednesday the 4th September, 1963, the coastguard passed an anticipatory message to the coxswain stating a sailing yacht was nearing the northwest Margate Sands, about...
Volare
Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.40 on the evening of the 20th of June, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had been seen drifting on the ebb tide past Broughty Ferry. Her crew of three were waving a white towel or...
Gnomo
Walmer, Kent - 9.56 p.m. on 15th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a yacht was aground on the Goodwin sands about five miles east of Deal pierhead. At 10.8 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station,...