LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronwin
Hastings, Sussex. Thirty minutes after midnight on 8th September, 1965, a red flare was sighted two miles south of the Fairlight coastguard lookout. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea and an ebbing tide. The...
Commander Philip Edward Vaux, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.)
Commander Philip Edward Vaux, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.), died at Lymington on 23rd January, 1966. He was aged 70.
Retiring from the Royal Navy in 1920, Commander Vaux joined the RNLI the following year, and after serving...
Category: Obituaries
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Radio Caroline
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At n p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had intercepted a message from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline in Ramsey Bay that there was an injured man on...
A Cabin Cruiser
Hartlepool, Co. Durham - At 7 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties three quarters of a mile north-east of Hartlepool.
The life-boat City of Bradford...
Alnair, of Monrovia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a...
John VI, Belinda J.
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 10 a.m. on gth August, 1966, a white cabin cruiser appeared to be in distress aboutfour miles south west of the station.
There was a moderate south westerly breeze with a slight sea. It was low...
The Ex-Naval Pinnace Julia Fisher
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 7.14 p.m. on gth September, 1966, a fishing boat, apparently with engine trouble, was noticed approximately half a mile north north west of the Sunk lightvessel.
A further message reported...
Lorna Cordelia, Jaqueline Stevenson
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 4 p.m. on 22nd February, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two cobles from Boulmer were overdue.
The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 4.21 in a...
The Sailing Boat Freya
At 3.30 p.m. on 28th July, 1967, while the second coxswain was returning from Ireland's Eye in his own launch, he saw two flares fired behind the island. He returned to the life-boat and summoned five members of the life-boat crew. The...