LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Amphibious Craft
AMPHIBIOUS CRAFT SANK Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.30 p.m. on 18th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an amphibious craft with five men on board, employed to make improvements to a sewage pipe for the local authorities, had...
Renette
TOW FOR YACHT IN ROUGH SEA Runswick, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th April, 1962, the coxswain and other members of the life-boat crew saw a yacht in difficulties north of Staithes. The honorary secretary was...
A Yawl
LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS YAWL WITH SIX CHILDREN ABOARD Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 31st August, 1962, a message was received from Cahirciveen that six children were adrift in a yawl under oars and were being blown seawards...
The Lobster Yawl Lion
LOBSTER YAWL ESCORTED IN Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 7th December, 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the bowman of the lifeboat that the local lobster yawl Lion was having difficulty in reaching port...
Wind Rush and Ariel
TWO YACHTS TAKEN IN TOW New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground between the revetment and Taylor's bank. The life-boat White Star, on...
Hansaet
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM GERMAN TRAWLER Wick, Caithness-shire. At 10.45 p.m.
on Tuesday the 13th of August, 1963, the Wick coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German trawler Hansaet of Hamburg had broken down...
Finetta
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 26th of April, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the S.S. Emsworth had wirelessed for the help of the life-boat. She had picked up a man from the yacht Finetta, of Southampton. The...
Garlock
Lowes toft, Suffolk.—At 6.58 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1957, it was reported that a yacht had cap- sized off Claremont pier. The life- boat Greater London (Civil Service No.
3), on temporary duty at the station,...
Wima
Cromer, Norfolk. At 6.20 on the evening of the 27th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had broken down and was drifting east of Cromer. At 6.37 the motor vessel Antiquity of London approached the...
Sultan
At 6.22 p.m. on 2yth August, 1966, a report was received that a vessel off the Happy Days Holiday Camp, Towyn, had fired a distress signal. At 6.36 the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a east south...