LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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THREE BOATS CALLED Bembridge, Isle of Wight, Selsey and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.5 p.m. on i8th February, 1964, the coastguard told the Bembridge honorary secretary that a naval Sea Hawk aircraft was missing between St. Catherine's...
Welsh Lady II and Sara Terrapin
SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZED At 2.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1964, the lifeboat's mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a vessel, whose position was one mile offshore from the station, had fired two smoke flares. The vessel Welsh Lady II had a...
The Aberdeen Trawler Loch Kildonan
TRAWLER ASHORE Stronsay, Orkneys. At 8.30 a.m. on I2th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Loch Kildonan was ashore on sand in Holland Bay. There was a fresh south-south-easterly breeze with...
Covesea and Ocean Swell (1)
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...
Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez
Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.0 in the evening, on the 25th of June, 1951, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy was reported in difficulties and drifting two miles south-west of Whiting Bay. At 6.17 the life-boat Sir David...
Racing Yachts
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During a regatta on the 23rd of August, 1951, the weather began to get worse.
At 3.15 in the afternoon a yacht cap- sized. At 3.20 other yachts were seen to capsize one mile north-east of the...
The Turbocraft Doughty
Walmer, Kent. At 5.8 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1960, flares and rockets were spotted over the Good- win Sands near the wreck of the N.E.
Victory by the life-boat mechanic and others on the sea front. A...
Ros Airgead (1)
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was in- formed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead had fouled her propeller and needed help. When the life-boat Peter and...
Lundy Lady
Minehead, Somerset. At 10.40 on the morning of the 30th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that he had seen a yacht dismasted about three-quarters of a mile north of Minehead. A moderate west-south-west- erly wind was...