LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mildred
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 5.30 in the evening of the 23rd of November, 1951, the keeper of the South Gare Lighthouse reported a signal from a fishing coble that she had lost her pro- peller, and needed help, and at 6.6 that night the...
Rosemary
TOW FOR COXSWAIN'S FISHING BOAT Montrose, Angus. At noon on the 23rd August, 1962, the coxswain reported by radio-telephone from his motor fishing boat Rosemary that he needed help two miles off Usan. The life-boat The Good Hope was...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Walmer, Kent. At about 3.5 p.m.
on 6th June, 1965, life-boatmen at the boat house saw a sailing dinghy capsize some three-quarters of a mile southeast of the station. At 3.5 p.m. the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Wheal Geevor
Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 10.30 a.m. on ist July, 1965, the motor boat Wheal Geevor was reported to have struck a rock three quarters of a mile west of Cape Cornwall. Her crew of seven were baling water. There was a light northeasterly...
Davento
Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.50 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Southwold. At 1.55 the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh south-westerly breeze and came up with the...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 4.44 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, a sailing dinghy was reported to have capsized off Majuba.
The IRB was launched immediately in a south-westerly breeze and calm sea. She found the dinghy with one person...
Spray
Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 4.33 p.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Spray with two skin divers on board was in difficulties off Porthchapel beach. There was a light southerly...
Dawn Flight
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 5.12 a.m.
on 3rd October, 1965, a motor yacht was reported in trouble one and a half miles north of Danger Patch. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 5.30 in a moderate breeze and a...
Ballylesson
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.25 a.m.
on igth October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a collision had occurred off Pluckington Bank buoy and that a coaster was sinking. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett went out at...
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TWO CHILDREN ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 24th November, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that there were two sick children who needed hospital treatment. One had appendicitis and the other had a dangerous cut on his leg. As no...