LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
TWO BOYS AND SAILING DINGHY SAVED Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.50 on the evening of Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the acting honorary secretary received a telephone call from a man at Donabate stating he was concerned for the safety of his son...
Sea King
YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C.,...
Formby from Opposite Page
'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...
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Boston Seafoam
Isle of Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.45 p.m. on 22nd October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honor-ary secretary that red flares had been reported in the area of the island of Scarba. The life-boat Francis...
The Pinnace, Pinnace
Cromer, Norfolk - At 5.27 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coxswain and motor mechanic saw distress flares from a small vessel two miles north west of the life-boathouse. The lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 5.35 in a light north...
Sea Sweeper (1)
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...
Hunzeborg
Walmer, Kent - At 10.4 a.m. on i3th August, 1966, the honorary secretary heard an S.O.S. call from the Dutch coaster Hunzeborg reporting that she had been in collision with the Greek freighter Diamandis, south of the East Goodwin lightship....
An Aircraft,and Medea
At noon on 26th August, 1966, the Air Commandant, Guernsey Airport, told the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed off Alderney and asked if the life-boat could be sent to investigate.
Three aqua-lung divers, who...
Isle of Gigha
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 10.19 a-ni.
on nth November, 1966, news was given that the barge Isle of Gigha had capsized three miles south of Chuirn Island. Two men were missing. There was a strong southerly wind with a rough...
Excellent
Torbay, South Devon - At 5.10 p.m.
on 8th March, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Excellent's propeller had been fouled by a trawl. She was within half a mile of the Western Blackstone rock off the...