LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
CREW WERE SAFE Swanage, Dorset. At 6.7 p.m. on 12th April, 1964, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had grounded on Kimmeridge Ledge. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea. Visibility...
H.M.S. Mersey
Blackpool, Lancashire. At 9.15 a.m.
on I4th June, 1964, the life-boat Maria Noble launched in a strong north-westerly breeze and rough sea to return the captain and other officers to H.M.S. Mersey, which was i| miles off...
Ann Elizabeth
SHAFT WAS BROKEN Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.35 p.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was flashing a light about one mile north-west of the harbour entrance.
The sea...
Uncle George
ENGINE DIFFICULTIES At 5 p.m. on 30th August, 1964, the watchman on the east pier told the coxswain that a motor launch had broken down in the smooth seas just off the Quern buoy. At 5.10 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out into a...
A Motor Boat (4)
SAFELY TO MOELFRE At i.20 p.m. on 5th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a small motor boat had sprung a leak and was drifting with the fresh to strong south-westerly breeze in rough seas north-north-east of...
A Motor Boat (5)
FOUR WERE RESCUED Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 8.25 p.m.
on 24th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat was reported to be in trouble off Port-e- Vullen in rough seas and a moderate...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
TWO GIRLS IN SEA Life-boat O.N. 44-001. At 3 p.m. on 4th August, 1964, while the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001 was on a publicity launch in company with the Bembridge life-boat, a small sailing dinghy was seen to capsize off Southsea...
A Boat (5)
South wold, Suffolk. At 7.14 p.m.
on nth September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was flying a distress signal about three miles north of Southwold. The tide was ebbing and there was a...
The Inner Dowsing Lightvessel
FOUR WERE STRANDED Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 8.10 a.m.
on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men and two boys were stranded on the Inner Dowsing lightvessel. They had secured to the...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
REQUEST FROM DUBLIN At 9.15 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the Irish Lights Office, Dublin, asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the Coningbeg lightvessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 9.55 in a moderate westerly...