LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Sphene
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 1.10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor life-boat...
Chota
A CAPSIZED YACHT Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.12 in the afternoon of the 24th of May, 1947, the Yealm coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized a quarter of a mile north-east of Mewstone at the mouth of Yealm River, and the motor life-boat...
A Yacht (1)
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.44 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, a yacht with one man on board was reported in difficulties four miles south-east of Beachy Head. A small coaster was standing by the boat. There was a gale from the south-west with a...
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RADIO INVICTA Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.5 p.m. on 28th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a wireless transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had badly injured a foot and...
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...
Namanda
YACHT AGROUND Kirkcudbright. At 5.06 p.m. on nth April, 1965, a local boatman informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a cabin cruiser on the rocks off the Balmangan shore of Ross Bay. There was a strong westerly breeze with a slight...
Minoru
Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...
Monrose
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.29 a.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Monrose needed medical attention.
The IRB, with a doctor on board, was launched at...
The German Training Ship Ruhr
Poole, Dorset - At 12.50 p.m. on 6th December, 1969, the life-boat mechanic received a report from the coastguard that the German training ship Ruhr had asked for help in landing a seriously ill man. A rendezvous was arranged five miles...
A Cabin Cruiser
Cromarty. At 8.30 on the evening of the 8th of September, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser with one man on board was missing between Chanonry Point and Inverness. The life-boat Lilla Marras, Douglas...