LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ees Teyr
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6.15 on the evening of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumaris had an engine failure and was in need of assistance three miles...
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CUT OFF BY TIDE At 5.52 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's mechanic that the police had reported two people cut off by the tide on Renney rocks. There was a moderate west-northwesterly breeze with a heavy...
Ability
HAD GONE AGROUND Girvan, Ayrshire. At 5 a.m. on nth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had gone aground on Ailsa Craig. There was a moderate sea with a fresh southwesterly wind and it was low water...
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Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five Filey cobles were still at sea, and as the weather was getting worse asked if the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted would...
A Coaster
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 8.55 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, news was received that a coaster about 12 miles north east of Orme's Head had requested the services of a doctor to attend an injured man on board. At 9.55 the life-boat...
Alleda
At 9.53 a.m. on 4th September, 1966, a yacht was reported in distress about six miles south of Hastings. At 10.7 the rifeboat Fairlight was launched in a southwesterly gale and a rough sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat...
Pern
Anstruther, Fife - At 3.26 a.m. on 28th October, 1966, red flares were reported eight miles south east of Fifeness. At 3.30 the life-boat The Doctors was launched. It was three hoursafter high water. At 9 o'clock the life-boat reached...
Mizpah
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 4.40 p.m. on I4th January, 1967, the coastguard informedinformed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Mizpah had grounded on the Newcombe sandbank a quarter of a mile south east of Lowestoft harbour...
Skylark
During the after- noon of the 10th July the coastguard telegraphed that a small motor boat had broken down one mile south of the Southbourne coastguard station. She was the motor boat Skylark, of Poole, and was bound, with four men and two...