LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.

At 3.45 the patient and nurse...

Mudeford, Hampshire. At 1.20 p.m.

on i8th April, 1965, a member of the crew of the inshore rescue boat saw a speedboat with her crew of two in the water after she had been swamped at die harbour entrance. At 1.25 the IRB...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 8 p.m. on 2nd August, 1965, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a motor cruiser had broken down in a fresh to strong southerly breeze and a moderate sea and was drifting out to sea off the north...

Blyth, Northumberland. At 11.15 p.m. on 24th January, 1966, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, the Kirsten Frank, had gone aground on the Sow and Pigs rocks.

The life-boat Winston...

At 9.41 p.m. on i5th August, 1966, red flares were reported off Strumble Head.

At 9.51 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched on a smooth sea. It was two hours after high water. The life-boat found the fishing vessel...

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...

At 7.48 p.m. on nth April, 1967, it was reported that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at Aberbach, Dinas Cross. The lifeboat Howard Marryat was launched at 8 o'clock in a strong north north easterly wind on the ebb tide. On reaching the...

Arbroath, Angus - At 10.40 a.m.

on 13th August, 1967, the motor mechanic was informed that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties near Fairway buoy at the mouth of the Tay. A yacht in the vicinity had been unable to tow the...