LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (7)
Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.5 p.m. on 5th July, 1964, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was in difficulties about two miles out.
At 1.10 the inshore rescue boat launched in a moderate westerly...
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Rye Remembered
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A Pleasure Boat
The Life-boat George Woofindin was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April to the assistance of four men in a pleasure boat off Roker. The men had gone out fishing, but when they at- tempted to return they found that the off-shore wind had...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.49 on the night of the 7th of August, 1953, the police reported that eight people had left Groomsport in a motor boat at six o'clock and had been due back at 9.30. As they were still missing, the life-boat Sir...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
DRIFTING LOBSTER PUNT Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.20 a.m.
on 2yth July, 1964, the keeper of Ballycotton lighthouse told the honorary secretary that a lobster fishing boat with two men on board had broken down and was...
A Dinghy (2)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY WITH CHILDREN ABOARD Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 7th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy with two youths and three small children on board might soon be...
A Dinghy (9)
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.28 p.m. on i2th August, 1966, two men, who had left St. Ives for Carbis Bay at 4 o'clock in a rubber dinghy, were reported missing.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
A Small Open Boat
On the 5th September at about 2.30 P.M. a small open boat with one occupant left the harbour to return to Helen's Bay.
The wind was blowing strongly from W.S.W. and increasing, whilst the sea was heavy; the boat was...
A Small Motor Boat
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At 11.33 in the morning of the 17th of September, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small motor boat with two men on board was drifting out to sea, and the motor life-boat J and W was launched at...