LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About six o'clock on the morning of the 29th of June, 1953, six local fishing boats put to sea in fair weather, but a swell developed and it became misty. At ten o'clock a man told the life-boat honorary...
Hareth
Dover, Kent.—At 5.35 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor cruiser Hareth had broken down and had anchored off St.
Margaret's Bay with seven people on board....
A Cabin Cruiser
BABY WENT TOO Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.20 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser which lay at anchor in Sand bay needed the life-boat's assistance.
A...
Vedette
TOW FOR YACHT TO HARBOUR Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a small yacht off Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay. There was a light...
May
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.33 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had been seen firing red flares near Arranman's Barrels buoy...
Vives
SICK RADIO OPERATOR BROUGHT ASHORE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1963, Holyhead coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Vives of London was near the breakwater end and needed help. The...
A Whaler
Walmer, Kent.—At 3.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a whaler, with six boys from the Royal Marine School of Music on board, needed help three quarters of a mile south-east of Deal. At 4...
M.F.V. 900
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat honorary secre- tary saw a motor fishing vessel driving towards the north breakwater. At 4.20 the life-boat White Star was launched and made...
El Moroco
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.45 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a message was received that a motor vessel was drifting towards Trefusis Point, in Falmouth Harbour. At eight o'clock the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...
Westward Ho
Aberdeen.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 6th of August, 1955, the coast- guard telephoned that a small boat, with a crew of four, appeared to be in difficulty and drifting southwards two and a half miles south-east of Findon Ness. At four...