LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flip
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 10.15 p.m. on 14th September, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the motor launch Flip, with a crew of two, was overdue from a fishing trip believed to be in the vicinity of the Barrel rocks. The...
Swift
ENGINEER WAS ILL Margate, Kent. At 2.32 a.m. on nth March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Swift of London had reported that the second engineer was seriously ill and needed a doctor. The life-boat...
Amelie Suzanne
DOCTOR REQUIRED Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 8.10 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the skipper of the fishing coble Who Cares, who had just returned ashore, reported that the trawler Amelie Suzanne of Ostend was signalling for a doctor but that...
I.R.B. Services In Brief
Date 1964 October i October 3 October 4 October 5 October 8 October 10 October 17 Station Whitstable Whitstable Southwold West Mersea Mudeford Worthing Largs Casualty Cabin cruiser BALTIC LILY Capsized dinghy Capsized dinghy Flare Fishing...
Category: Services
Rolfe
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.30 p.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a young man on board the German motor vessel Rolfe one mile and three quarters north of Moelfre was believed to be suffering from...
Margaret Herd
CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.
Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...
Sea Ranger
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.
Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...
A Speed Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOAT MEN INJURED Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.53 p.m.
on 7th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat with three people on board was missing. The boat had last been seen twelve miles south of Falmouth....
Virgin IV
AGROUND IN FOG Dunbar, East Lothian. At 2.54 p.m. on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the m.f.v. Virgin IV had run aground in fog on Long Craig rock, half a mile west of the harbour.
The life-boat Margaret...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 11.40 a.m. on 24th April, 1966, a police inspector informed the honorary secretary that a car or van had gone over the cliffs and into the sea, close to the Aberdaron look-out hut. As no other suitable...