LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Speed
RAMSGATE.—At 6 A.M. on the 5th Jan., in consequence of signals of distress exhibited from the lightships, the Life-boat Bradford proceeded, in tow of the steamer Aid, to the assistance of the brig Speed, of Sunderland, which was ashore on...
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Misty Isle
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 11.38 on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a landing craft had reported a fishing vessel in need of help four miles to the southward, and at...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Captain William Watts-Williams, the coxswain of the St. David's life-boat. Captain Watts-Williams first went to sea at the age of thirteen, forty-nine years ago, and after a long and varied career,...
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An Aircraft
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of July. 1955.
the Civic Guard at Dalkey reported that a private aircraft with a crew of two had crashed in Killiney Bay. At 3.48 the life-boat Dunleary II put...
The Launch Golden Hind
Barmoutb, Merionethshire. — At three in the afternoon on the 3rd of October, 1950, the coxswain and others saw the launch Golden Hind, of Plymouth, approaching Barmouth Bar. There was a heavy sea, with a strong south- westerly breeze blowing...
Racing Dinghies
At 2.30 P.M. on the 30th August the coxswain saw a dinghy, which was racing, capsize.
She was helped by an attendant launch.
A few minutes later another dinghy filled, and the life-boat Agnes Cross was...
Flandre
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At ten o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1956, a telephone message was received from Lloyds agent that the trawler Flandre, of Derwent, was entering the bay with an injured man on board who needed...
Orlando
DISMASTED CRAFT Minehead, Somerset. At 12.50 p.m.
on i2th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran had been dismasted four miles off the Foreland.
At i.20 the life-boat Sarah...