LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosemary
Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.12 p.m. on 2nd May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was firing red flares one mile north of the life-boat station. At 7.45 the life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane was...
Echo
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 8 p.m. on 16th June, 1969, information was received that a yacht was in difficulties three miles from Howth. At 8.9 the life-boat A.M.T. slipped her moorings in a strong south easterly wind and a moderate sea. It was...
Patna
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.27 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, the motor yacht Patna in a position half a mile off Margate pier requested the assistance of the Ramsgate life-boat. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.37 in a...
A Dinghy
At 5 p.m. on 2ist March, 1967, a dinghy with two people aboard was reported drifting out to sea. Launch of the lifeboat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was requested in support of an R. A.F. helicopter which had also been alerted. The...
Cormorant
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 10.17 P-m- on 3oth June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had under observation a yacht which was making no headway. It seemed to have dropped anchor in a dangerous position close to Little...
A Canoe (2)
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 7.10 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, a tractor driver saw a capsized canoe with two persons clinging to it in broken water one mile south west of the life-boathouse. They were trying to make for the beach but due to the...
Neptune, of Delaware U.S
Early on the morning of the 28th December, information was received at this station, that a ship was on shore at Spittal Point, about a mile S.W. of Newbiggin. There was a strong wind blowing from the S. at the time, and it was very dark....
Courageous
Donaghadee, Co. Down.--At 7 P.M.
on the 24th October it was reported to the life-boat authorities tha t the motor boat Courageous, with eleven people on board,, who had gone to the Old Lighthouse Island to shoot rabbits,...
Storm Finch
At 5.20 P.M. on the 4th June, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on Margate Sands, and the motor life-boat Lord South- borough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.40 P.M. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
Renif
Poole, Dorset.—At 6.15 on the even- ing of the 26th of March, 1955, the police reported that a man and his wife had put out in the local motor launch Renif, but had been missing since 2.35.
At 6.30 the life-boat Thomas Kirk...