LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.
Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the...
Falcon
DANGEROUS POSITION Arbroath, Angus. At 8.50 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a message had been received from a Carnoustie resident that a fishing boat had fired two red flares from a point off Dowrie. At 9.6 the...
Sea Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Dungeness, Kent. At 2.50 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat had broken down and was lying at anchor half a mile off Littlestone. Her crew were waving for help while they baled her...
Belmura
GUNWALES AWASH At 8.15 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, a local resident telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a cabin cruiser had gone aground in the fresh south-easterly breeze and moderate seas at Saundersfoot.
The...
The Russian Cargo Vessel Jushnij Bug
RUSSIAN VESSEL At 9.50 a.m. on I4th October, 1964, a shipping agency in Hull telephoned the coxswain superintendent saying that a woman aboard the Russian cargo vessel Jushnij Bug was severely ill and needed medical attention. At 10.30 the...
Two Cobles
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 11.30 a.m. on igth March, 1965, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that two cobles from Craster had been unable to enter Craster harbour and were lying off...
Northern Queen
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.30 p.m.
on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the trawler Northern Queen of Grimsby had engine failure about thirty eight miles eastnorth- east of Wick, and that her...
Prosperity
ON THE SANDS Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 11.16 a.m. on yth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a 6o-foot motor fishing vessel ashore on sands north of Rattray Head. At 11.33 ^ life-boat...
Osprey
Salcombe, South Devon. At 10.14 p.m. on 29th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flag was being waved from a motor boat that was drifting south in Starehole Bay. At 10.25 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
The S.S. Ernrix
JUNE 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 P.M. a message was received from the Staithes coastguard that a three-masted vessel had fired distress rockets three and a half miles to the N.N.W. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing...