LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ailsa
Girvan, Ayrshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1958, the motor mechanic, who was on board the life-boat at her moorings, intercepted a radio-telephone message passed between the Ailsa Craig lighthouse keeper and Portpatrick...
Linda
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At noon on the 13th of July, 1958, the Orlock coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough. At12.20 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at...
Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...
Brig O'Doone
Islay, Hebrides. At 10.20 on the night of the 16th of July, 1959, the lighthouse keeper at Rhuvaal informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had fired distress flares a mile and a half north-north-east of...
Gina
Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.
1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...
Ellen
Walmer, Kent. At 3.24 on the after- noon of the 14th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Beeding to the coastguard at Deal stating that a fishing boat had broken down close in- shore under...
Willowbank
Stromness, Orkneys. At 8.20 on the evening of the 29th of February, 1960, the coxswain was told that a fishing boat, with two men on board, was overdue from lobster fishing. The honorary secretary was then informed by the coastguard that a...
Oriole
WATERLOGGED YACHT BEACHED ON MUD FLAT Selsey, Sussex. At 5.17 on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, a local fisherman, who was preparing to go to sea, saw red flares being fired from a ketchrigged boat about a mile north-east of the...
Cariad
TOW FOR YACHT WITH TWO ABOARD Ilfracombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was flashing sos off Highveer Point, Lynmouth. There was a moderate breeze...
Karen
MOTHER REPORTS SONS MISSING IN BOAT Torbay, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 26th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the mother of two young men had reported that they had not returned home after leaving...