LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Hawkinge
Appledore, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sea Hawk was aground off Down End and that one of the crew had been taken off by a lifeguard in a rubber boat. The...
Betty M
ESCORT FOR YACHT IN TOW OF PILOT LAUNCH Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 5th August.
1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was showing flares near the East One...
Catrina
TOW FOR CATAMARAN IN NEAR GALE Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 2.3 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficulties northnorth- east of Fishguard. The...
Livanita (1)
SECOND SERVICE TO NORWEGIAN MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.15 on the morning of the 27th February, 1963, the port medical officer telephoned to say that the motor vessel Livanita of Grimstad, which had a sick man on board, was...
George and Elizabeth Gow
RESERVE LIFE-BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.16 on the morning of the 12th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received a request from the reserve life-boat George and Elizabeth Gow for...
Etoile d'Arvor
TOW FOR FRENCH TRAWLER WITH ENGINE TROUBLE St. Ives, Cornwall. At six o'clock on the evening of the 12th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French trawler Etoile d'Arvor was disabled three miles west...
Linda Anne
EXHAUSTED MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 8.12 on the evening of the 23rd June, 1963, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident at Whitley Bay had reported red flares about three...
Marabut
DEAD WOMAN FOUND IN SEA Anstruther, Fife. At 12.49 on the afternoon of Wednesday the 31 st of July, 1963, the coastguard at Anstruther informed the honorary secretary that the Polish trawler Marabut had reported that she was standing by the...
Ocean Gain
FIREMEN ON BOARD North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of i6th October, 1963, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had been told that two vessels had been in collision in Newton Bay and that one...
The Ex-Life-Boat King John
MOTOR BOAT TOW At 11.15 p.m. on 23rd November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down two to three miles north-east of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 11.35 in a...