LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Malanie, of Gosport
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 7.48 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, a yacht was reported in difficulties about one mile west of Hurst Castle. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at 8.1 in a strong south south easterly breeze...
Cape Coast
Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower on a bearing of...
Wisp
SEPT. 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. The coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the southward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rather...
None (47)
OCT. 31ST. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
It had been reported that a raft with men on board could be seen off Wicklow Head.
A strong gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. A rowing skiff put out from Wicklow as...
A Mustang Aeroplane (1)
OCTOBER 18TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a Mustang aeroplane had fallen into the sea about a mile from Chapel St. Leonards in a south-easterly direction. A...
S.S. Lowick, of Newcastle
FEBRUARY 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.50 in the morning the coxswain reported a vessel ashore on a slag bank south-east of the South Gare Breakwater. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a strong sea and heavy rain....
None (13)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
Fair Irene
MARCH 4TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 6.50 in the evening information was received from the coastguard that the owner of a Rye Harbour fishing boat had reported that his boat had not returned from the fishing ground. A fresh north-west wind was...
Red Hackle
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 7.57 in the evening a fisherman reported the local fishing boat Red Hackle in difficulties and drifting towards the rocks a mile west of the harbour. A south-easterly breeze was blowing...
Shamrock, of Wick
OCTOBER 27TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.38 at night the coastguard reported that flashes from a torch and a white flare had been seen six hundred yards north of South Head. A strong north-north-west breeze was blowing,...