LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Faith
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 6.24 a.m. on 12th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that a distress signal had been sighted south west of Breaksea point. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris slipped her moorings at 6.50. There was a...
Mi Amigo
TWO SAVED At 4.4. p.m. on I5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Mi Amiga, operating as the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline, had broadcast a message that they had rescued two women...
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Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 19th August, 1961, the coast- guard requested the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to illuminate the cliff base where four people had been cut off by the tide. At 10.3 the maroons...
Radio Caroline
At 5.34 p.m. on 26th May, 1967, it was learned that Deal coastguard had intercepted a call from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline asking for assistance to bring ashore a crew member with a badly burned arm. The life-boat Cecil...
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
Jura
Cromer, Norfolk. At 11.20 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Lloyd's agent had asked for the assistance of the life-boat to refloat the motor vessel Jura of Gronin- gen, which...
Haab (1)
LYDD AND NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the morning of the 25th November, during a fresh gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea, the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway, bound from New York to Rotterdam, with a cargo of grain, grounded on the outer end of the...
Perseus
ABANDONED SHIP Walmer, Kent. At 11.45 p.m. on 5th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Perseus of Bremen had radioed that she was on fire and that the crew were abandoning ship about 15 miles...
Sea Knight
EMPTY CABIN CRUISER AND DINGHY FOUND Poole, Dorset. At 2.35 on the morning of the 30th September, 1962, the police informed the coastguard that two men were missing in a cabin cruiser. They had left twelve hours earlier to dig for bait at...
Fishing Cobles and A Parachute
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the...