LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blanche and Sally
TWO BOATS FOUND At 10.26 a.m. on ipth August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's second coxswain that two fishing boats near Blakeney Overfalls were reported to be making very heavy weather and would probably need to be...
A Yacht (1)
NOBODY ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.45 a.m. on 6th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht drifting about a quarter of a mile southwest of the lightvessel,...
Canoes
GIRL RESCUED Exmouth, South Devon. At 5.25 p.m. on 17th April, 1965, two canoes were reported in trouble off Langstone Rock near Dawlish. The life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at 6.10 in a northwesterly gale and moderate sea. The...
May
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.33 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had been seen firing red flares near Arranman's Barrels buoy...
None (5)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 24th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Seaford police had reported that four people were cut off by the tide between Splash Point, Seaford, and Cuckmere Haven. At 4.24 the...
The Motor Yawl Shirma
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 21st of May, 1955, the principal keeper of the Cantick Head lighthouse reported that the local motor vawl Shirma, laden with lobster pots and carrying a crew of two, had broken down. He later...
Ranee
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.— At 8.30 on the evening of the 5th of July, 1955, the coastguard reported that the local motor boat Ranee had broken down off Eel Point. He later stated that she had anchored, but was dragging sea- wards. At nine...
A Dinghy (1)
Workington, Cumberland.—At 10.50 on the night of the 21st of May, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that a dinghy had been reported to be drifting towards Workington south buoy. The life-boat Man- chester & Salford XXIX...
Centaurus
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard reported that the Liberian steamer Centaurus had been in collision with an unknown tanker some eighteen miles east-by-south from Ramsgate. The life-boat...
Mary (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—About half past three in the afternoon on the 14th of November, 1949, the coastguard tele- phoned that the life-boat coxswain at Flamborough had reported a fishingcoble, broken down but under sail, a mile north-east of the...