LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 5.53 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1951, a resident at Waterwynch report- ed to the coastguard that a rowing boat seemed to be in difficulties in Water- wynch Bay. A later message made it two rowing boats. At...
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, a bather could be seen in a rubbeJ dinghy three-quarters of a mile north- east of the pier. He appeared to be drifting seawards on the ebbing...
A Canoe (1)
At 5.18 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an R.A.F. helicopter had been dispatched to search for a light blue two seater canoe missing between North Foreland and Deal. The canoe was last seen one...
A Carley Float
APRIL 16TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
At 7.35 P.M. the coastguard reported an object on the sea in a south-easterly direction from Blackhead, and at 7.40 P.M. the motor life-boat The Three Sisters was...
Help from Overseas
THE honorary secretary of the Bexhill- on-Sea branch recently sent out a personal appeal to his own friends.
The result was nearly £21, and subscrip- tions came to him from as far afield as Switzerland, India and...
Category: Donations
Rescued From Rocks
Two boaters stranded on a small pinnacle of rocks in choppy seas were glad to see Trearddur Bay’s B class lifeboat Dorothy Selina on 23 October.
Their boat had suffered engine failure, smashed against the rocks and...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
25 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1962, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (2)
Torbay, Devon. — 7th November, 1938. A fishing boat had lost her propeller and burned flares, but a trawler took her in tow.—Rewards, £14 9s. Qd..
A Small Boat (2)
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—23rd January, 1939. A small boat had been reported in distress, but a long search was without result.—Rewards, £8 Is..
A Vessel (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. —• 15th September, 1939. A message had been received that a vessel was in distress through enemy action, but the life-boat found that her help was not required.—Rewards, £5 15s. 6d..