LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small motor boat was seen to be in difficulties with engine trouble just inside the harbour mouth. At 5.32 the IRB launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and slight sea. She...
A Steam Trawler
FEB. 16TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEY. A steam trawler was in distress, but was taken in tow by another trawler.-Rewards, £9 1s..
A Ship's Boat (2)
NOVEMBER 19TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. A ship’s boat had been reported adrift, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 9s..
A Pontoon (1)
MARCH 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A pontoon had been reported adrift, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £19 16s..
A Vessel (2)
MAY 31ST. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. A vessel had been reported aground, but another vessel towed her to safety. - Rewards, £1 17s. 6d..
A Dinghy (7)
AUGUST 16TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. A dinghy had been reported missing, but she had made for Brixham. - Rewards, £9 4s..
A Rowing Boat
APRIL 2ND. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, ESSEX. At 11.12 A.M. the military authorities reported, through the coastguard, that a soldier was adrift in a small rowing boat, without oars, about four hundred yards off Butlin’s Camp. A moderately strong N.W....
A Naval Motor Barge
During a moderate gale with a heavy sea on the 7th July, the Life-boat Sarah Kay was called out to the assistance of a naval motor-barge, which had become un- manageable and stranded about four miles to the east of...
A Small Sailing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—14th January, 1939. A small sailing boat bound from Leith to Dunbar was overdue.
She took shelter at Cockenzie and the life-boat was recalled by wireless.
—Rewards, £14 11s....
A French Trawler (1)
Penlee, and Coverack, Cornwall.—14th August, 1939. A French trawler had been reported in difficulties off the Lizard, but neither life-boat could find any sign of her.—Rewards: Penlee, £12 Is.; Coverack, £10 6s..