LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twilight
HELICOPTER-LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 p.m.
on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the life-boat coxswain reported that a man who had put off for a fishing trip off Bembridge in the...
Mona
INEXPERIENCED YACHTSMEN IN DAMAGED BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.5 on the morning of Wednesday, 21st August, 1963, a fisherman returning from crabbing in squally weather with poor visibility and light wind from the west-north-west reported...
Cascade
SIXTEEN HOUR SERVICE TO DUTCH VESSEL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 2.53 a.m. on Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the Lochmaddy police reported to the Stornoway coastguard that there was a vessel ashore at Sponish Point, Lochmaddy. The...
A Rowing Boat, a Dinghy and the Converted Trawler Alessie
HELICOPTER HELPED At 8.30 a.m. on 3151 August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men in a rowing boat about three miles offshore from his look-out were waving frantically to attract attention.
There...
A Rowing Boat
MAN WINCHED ABOARD At 10.50 a.m. on 6th December, 1964, the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with three men aboard had been swamped at Lligwy beach. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 10.57 to search for the rowing boat....
Gay Buccaneer
OVERDUE Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.47 a.m. on 26th August, 1965, the 28-foot fishing cruiser Gay Buccaneer was reported overdue on a passage from Southend to Wallasey Bay. Further inquiries were made and as there was no trace of the Gay...
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APPRECIATION RECEIVED Aith, Shetlands. At 2.40 p.m. on I4th August, 1965, the local doctor was told by the district nurse on the Island of Foula that a patient was seriously ill. Her removal to hospital was necessary and the assistance of...
The Hopper Sir Joseph Rawlinson
HOPPER AND TUG COLLIDED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.10 a.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a collision had taken place near the South Oaze buoy and that there were people in the water. The lifeboat Greater London II...
Charon of Styx (1)
Flamborough and Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th February, 1967, a small yacht was reported to be in difficulties off Flamborough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at 5.40 into a moderate south south easterly...
Dinas
Sick Russian A RUSSIAN TRAWLER which, having a sick man on board, might need help was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1630 on Friday, Sep-tember 3. Later, at 1900, a further message was...