LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Belgian Fishing Vessel Zeemansblik
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.26 p.m. on I9th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian fishing vessel Zeemansblik was aground two miles west by north of St. Catherine's Point. The life-boat The...
Letters
Local boat How does one 'sell' the lifeboat service? Our branch committee at Barrow-in-Furness believes that where you have a comparatively isolated community and a lifeboat station as well, you 'localise' the boat. There...
Category: Correspondence
A Rescue Boat
Filey ILB launched at 1515 after the crew of a small boat had been reported waving an oar. It was one of the sailing club's own rescue boats and the club's other rescue boat came to her assistance, arriving just after the ILB. The...
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Damage on service PADSTOW LIFEBOAT, a 48' 6" Oakley, with midship steering, James and Catherine Macfarlane, launched on service at 2256 on Tuesday, December 7, to investigate a report of red flares.
The wind was...
New Life-Boats
Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
Category: Articles
Mary
PROPELLER LOST At 9.23 p.m. on 2yth June, 1965, the honorary secretary heard from the coastguard that a coble four miles north-east of Whitby was waving a flag. The lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.30. There was a gentle westerly...
A Yacht (3)
SURVIVORS TO HOSPITAL Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.10 p.m. on i4th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Nab pilot cutter had rescued four people from a yacht which had overturned. The life-boat was required as some of the...
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CLIFF FATALITY Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a girl had fallen over the cliffs at White Nothe and appeared to be seriously injured. There was a moderate...
Galaxy
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on gth September, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Galaxy (radio transmitting station "Radio London") had requested the services of the lifeboat to...
Hildegard Knuppel
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...