LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Dover, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 21st August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that six boys were cut off by the tide at East Cliff. The life-boat Faithful Forester, with a dinghy in tow, slipped her moorings at 6.47. It was...
Sgiandubh
Amble, Northumberland. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men had been seen cling- ing to a dinghy which had capsized at the north end of Coquet Island. There was a light...
Harvest Reaper
FISHING VESSEL ENTERS HARBOUR IN TOW Anstruther, Fife. At 10.5 on the morning of the 17th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two fishing vessels, one in tow of the other, were approaching the harbour. There...
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AIRCRAFT CRASHED Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.
At 12.21 p.m. on iyth February, 1964, the coastguard told the Appledore honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea four to seven miles north of Hartland...
A Coble
BLOWN OUT TO SEA Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 11 a.m. on i2th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was being blown out to sea off the pier. There was a near gale from the...
Dirkje
INTERPRETER CAME At 10.45 a.m. on iyth June, 1964, the secretary of the Berwick Infirmary told the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had asked if a boat could land the skipper as she could not enter the harbour on the ebb tide. As no...
The S.S. Naess Tern
MAN HAD DIED At 8.16 p.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Naess Tern of Panama was making for St. Ives Bay with a sick man aboard. The lifeboat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at...
A Boat (1)
MAN COLLAPSED At 6.46 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had overturned in moderate seas and a fresh south-westerly breeze off Bowleaze cove. At 7.5 the lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke put...
Anne
FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel...
Venture
Whitby, Yorkshire. At approximately 10.25 a.m. on i6th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that several local fishing cobles were at sea in worsening conditions. The lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 10.30...