LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barbican
FISHING VESSEL ESCORTED TO SAFETY Plymouth, Devon. At 10.30 a.m. on Sunday the 7th of July, 1963, the Queen's Harbour Master informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the police reporting that the fishing...
Beaver
NIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING YOUTH AND CABIN CRUISER Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 p.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by a youth's father that the cabin cruiser Beaver with the boy on board had left...
Pandora
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.20 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been reported about five miles west of Aberaeron.
The life-boat St. Albans was launched at 9.55...
Sea Ker, of Bideford
Clovelly, Devon-At 10.50 p.m. on 16th June, 1968, it was learnt that acabin cruiser from Bideford was fogbound in Barnstaple bay. Twenty minutes later the coastguard requested the assistance of the life-boat to search for the boat. The...
Gnomo
Walmer, Kent - 9.56 p.m. on 15th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a yacht was aground on the Goodwin sands about five miles east of Deal pierhead. At 10.8 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station,...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 25th July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing dinghy had capsized three miles south-east of the boathouse.
The life-boat Watkin Williams...
Sylvia
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 7.50 on the evening of the 21st of August, 1960, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the small yacht Sylvia of New Quay appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting...
Belmare
Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat Solomon Browne would be required to take a sick man off the Swedish tanker...
Vasa
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.50 on the evening of the 23rd May, 1961, the life- boat motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a motor launch close to the life-boat slipway appeared to be sinking and that her crew had asked for help. A...
Vivien Jean
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.29 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser was firing red flares a mile and a half east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a moderate...