LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stellar
FRENCH YACHT FOUND BY EQUIPMENT Swanage, Dorset. At 8.5 on the morning of the 4th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French yacht Stellar's engine had broken down twenty miles off Poole and the yacht...
Angela
TOW OF YACHT TAKEN OVER Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.5 on the night of the 13th June, 1963, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wheelsman had taken in tow the yacht Angela of Ramsgate, which had broken down...
Cristo
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY HOLED COASTER New Brighton, Cheshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the coaster Cristo of Liverpool was aground near C.I5 buoy but was in no...
Skaansund and a Yacht
ESCORT FOR YACHT AND TOWING VESSEL Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.36 on the morning of Saturday the 10th of August, 1963, the Lowestoft coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received via Gorleston coastguard that the...
The United States Troopship Upshur
SICK MAN LANDED FROM U.S.
TROOPSHIP Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday the 21st of August, 1963, the second coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the United States troopship Upshur,...
Liz
ENGINE FAILURE Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.15 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been observed half-a-mile off shore at Mablethorpe. At 9.45 the lifeboat...
A Boat (1)
BOAT DRIFTING Clogher Head, Co. Louth. The lifeboat George and Caroline Ermen had been at sea during the afternoon of 26th June, 1965, escorting boats attending the Boyne Yacht Club regatta and had just returned to her station when a message...
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Canopus
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.
There was a strong...
Pearl
EXHAUSTED BY ROWING Whitehills, Banffshire. At 1.55 a.m.
on 3rd August, 1965, the police reported that a flare had been seen off Banff. The life-boat Helen Wycherley launched at 2.15 in a moderate north-easterly breeze and...