LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Lily
A LONG TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About 3.30 in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1947, information was received from the Southend coastguard that the Fraserburgh motor fishing vessel Golden Lily had broken down east of Sanda, and that...
Kirby
At 6.15 A.M. on the 13th October the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station told the coxswain that Holmpton coastguard had reported a steam trawler ashore at Dimlington. She was the Kirby. of Grimsby, bound home from the fishing grounds, with a...
The Twin-engined Cabin Cruiser Eldora
CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 9th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down two miles north of Cape Cornwall....
Myhaven
TOW FOR YACHT AFTER FUEL PIPE CLEARED Arbroath, Angus. At 5.20 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Myhaven had broken down with engine trouble three miles north of the...
Hazhad
HELP FROM MOTOR BOAT, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht off the Conway estuary was being kept under observation...
Pierre-Louis
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.32 on the night of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground at the end of the north pier of Lowestoft...
The Oyster Smack Royal Native
TOW FOR OYSTER SMACK AFTER BREAKDOWN Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing flares off North Foreland. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
Pacheco
TELEPHONE ENQUIRIES Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 7.45 p.m. on i3th October, 1963, the gardai told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Bray Head. As the information was not definite the honorary secretary rang various...
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 3.5 ^jn. on 26th June, 1965, members of the inshore'rescue'boat crew saw two people waving towels to attract attention at the foot of the cliffs about a quarter of a mile north-east of the station. The IRB...
Pandora
At 5.25 p.m. on 3oth August, 1965, the police at Withernsea reported that a small vessel was firing red flares one and a half miles east of Withernsea. There was a moderate to fresh westerly wind and a slight sea. The life-boat City of...