LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CUT OFF BY TIDE At 5.52 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's mechanic that the police had reported two people cut off by the tide on Renney rocks. There was a moderate west-northwesterly breeze with a heavy...
A Dinghy (3)
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.20 p.m.
on 5th July, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell, which was on a publicity launch with several passengers on board, noticed that a small dinghy with a crew of two was...
A Belgian Trawler
LOST FOUR FINGERS At 11.45 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that a Belgian trawler was off Fleetwood with an injured man aboard, who had lost four fingers in an accident. At 12.5 a.m. the life-boat Ann Letitia...
A Whaler
WHALER HAD CAPSIZED Gourdon, Kincardineshire. At 11.35 a.m. on 28th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a navaltype whaler had capsized off the Todhead lighthouse, throwing the six occupants into the sea. The tide had...
A Sailing Dinghy (8)
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.32 p.m.
on igth July, 1964, the coastguard heard that a sailing dinghy with three people on board had capsized one mile north-east of Skegness pier. At 2.38 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Artigas
FROM GREEK SHIP At 5.25 p.m. on 6th November, 1964, the coxswain superintendent received a telephone message from a Hull shipping agent saying that a member of the crew of the Greek vessel Artigas was injured and needed hospital treatment....
Sea Jack
Appledore, North Devon. At 11.30 a.m. on i8th November, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the auxiliary yacht Sea Jack, which had a crew of three, had lost all her canvas and had engine trouble. She was being towed by another yacht...
Children's Friend
DRIFTING VESSEL At 2.31 p.m. on gth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was drifting in a moderate sea and a fresh south-easterly breeze off the Point of Ayre. The...
The Gorton Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....
Sea Hawk
Swanage, Dorset. At 1.32 p.m. on 16th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small outboard dinghy, situated offDurlston Head, was drifting on the tide with a man and boy on board. The life-boat R.L.P. was...