LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Trinity House Vessel Mermaid
TOOK PROVISIONS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House Depot at Great Yarmouth asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take out provisions to the Trinity...
Helen
TOOK OVER TOW Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in tow of a steam ship two miles south of Bolt Head and the life-boat was asked to take over the tow. There was a...
St. Gerald
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 8.10 a.m. on igth June, 1964, the Arranmore lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in difficulties off the lighthouse. It was half tide with a moderate to fresh north-easterly...
A. Andess
ENGINE FAILED At 5.50 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the harbour pilots informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser A. Andess had radioed for assistance from a position 2| miles north of Hartlepool. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a...
Shamrock
NEWHAVEN-BOUND Life-boat O.N. 873 on passage. At 5.25 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, while the life-boat George Elmy was on her way from Dover to Newhaven in a moderate sea and a fresh westerly breeze, someone was seen waving from a small motor...
A Dinghy (5)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.45 p.m.
on 23rd July, 1964, the honorary secretary's son learned that someone was clinging to a dinghy and calling for heJp.
At 6.47 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
A Yacht (4)
Worthing, Sussex. At 3.45 p.m. on 8th September, 1964, the beach inspector's office informed a crew member that a yacht had capsized half a mile off west Worthing. Less than four minutes later the inshore rescue boat was launched in a...
Crescent Brand
BARGE WAS TOWED At 2.30 p.m. on 8th November, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a boat had fired a red flare while in a choppy sea on the Outer Carrs. At 2.40, three hours before high water, the lifeboat Richard Ashley was...
None (7)
CRASHED INTO SEA At 9.55 a.m. on 26th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Royal Naval authorities at Portland had asked the life-boat to help in searching for a naval aircraft believed to have crashed into the...
Queen Alexandra
ENGINE FAILED Workington, Cumberland. At 6.3 a.m. on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen one mile off Workington.
There was a gentle north-easterly breeze with a...