LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eight Bells
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE FAILURE Arbroath, Angus. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 5th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Eight Bells of Arbroath had engine faiJure off Auchmithie....
Dorothy
TRAWLER TOWED INTO HARBOUR Huniber, Yorkshire. At 6.5 on the evening of the 30th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Dorothy of Grimsby had run short of fuel half a mile east of Dimlington. The...
The Bulgarian Motor Vessel Vassil Levsky
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF BULGARIAN SHIP Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.30 on the morning of the 17th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Bulgarian motor vessel Vassil Levsky of Varna had a sick man on board who needed a...
Two Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED INTO TWO HARBOURS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 8.52 on the morning of the 28th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there were two cobles at sea and the weather was gradually becoming worse. The...
A Longshore Fishing Boat
LONGSHORE FISHING BOAT At 5.33 p.m. on 2ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a longshore fishing boat had broken down in Yarmouth Roads. Other longshore boats were calling for assistance as they could not tow...
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ISLAND CALL At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd November, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient on Inishmaan Island needed hospital treatment. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing....
Brighter Dawn, Cathleen and Golden Gleam
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 9.3 on the morning of the 9th of September, 1954, a man at Alnmouth reported that the fishing cobles Brighter Dawn, Cath- leen, and Golden Gleam, of Boulmer, appeared to be in difficulties in Aln- mouth Bay. At...
Paragon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1955, a flare was seen off Ireland's Eye. At six o'clock the life-boat R.P.L. was launched. The sea was choppy, a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and the tide...
Little Old Lady
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.52 on the evening of the 11th of September, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat, Little Old Lady, was broken down off the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched at 6.4 in...
A Pram Dinghy
ADRIFT AND LEAKING Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.33 a-mon 2nd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two small boys were adrift in a pram dinghy which was leaking and oar-less in the outer harbour. There was a moderate...