LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
Varina
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER At 12.55 p.m. on igth December, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser off the the Quern was signalling for help. There was a fresh north-north-westerly breeze with a rough sea...
The Motor Boats Seagull and Jennifer
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3 p.m. on 34th June, 1965, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew waS informed that' an flntboard motor boat had .broken down <$E St. Ives Head and that another motor boat had gone to, her assistance. On...
The Danish Motor Vessel Northwind
DANISH SHIP HELPED At 7.33 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a coaster with a deck cargo two and a half miles south-south-west of Ventnor appeared to have broken down, so at 7.45 the lifeboat Jesse Lumb was launched....
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BODY FOUND St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.11 p.m. on 15th September, 1965, a man was reported trapped on the rocks to the north of Portheras Cove and at 5.30 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched with the honorary medical...
Diana
YACHT LEAKING At 5.55 a.m. on I5th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht with her engine broken down was in need of assistance and that a pilot cutter was standing by. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...
Newby Wyke
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 4.30 p.m. on 29th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Newby Wyke, of Hull, due at Bridlington about 4.15, had a very sick man on board. There was a moderate north westerly...
A Vessel
Fowey, Cornwall - At 10.5 a.m. on 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was submerged with about two foot of mast showing above the water, a quarter of a mile west of Polperro. The life-boat Cecil and...
Shell Duck
Cromer, Norfolk - At 9.48 a.m. on 2nd June, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Shell Duck had been seen by a helicopter apparently broken down surrounded by oil three miles south west of Newarp...
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Longhope, Orkneys. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st of November, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that transport was needed to take a patient suffering from pleurisy from the island of Hoy to hospital at...