LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mercury
ESCORT FOR PLEASURE BOAT VISITING ISLANDS North Sunderland, Northumberland.
About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1962, the weather began to grow worse, and by 3.45 the sea had become very rough. The...
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
Premier
ENGINES HAD STOPPED As the fishing coble Premier was known to be at sea and the weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled at 7.30 a.m. on loth November, 1963. At 9.10 the coastguard informed the honorary...
Ariel
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.58 p.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard told the wife of the motor mechanic that a cargo ship was on the rocks five miles east of Selsey Bill. The motor mechanic was on his way home from the previous launch and was...
Jamaica
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.50 a.m. on loth November, 1965, the local trawler Jamaica was reported aground on the sandbank off Lowestoft harbour. She had sent out a 'Mayday' call. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick went out at 7.5 in...
Flower
Stornoway, Orkneys - At 8.30 p.m.
on I2th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the m.f.v. Flower that a member of her crew had severely injured his leg. The...
Panda
Hastings, Sussex. At 8.55 on the evening of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties nine miles south-east-by-south of Hastings. At 9.42 the life-boat...
Cuan
Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.29 on the night of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that the Swedish ship Kengis had taken a yacht in tow and was making for a position one mile west of Port Erin. The vessel had...
London Resolution
Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.10 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coxswain was informed that there was a sick seaman aboard the tanker London Resolution of London. The tanker was expected to reach a position five miles south of...
Exchange
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 19th of January,1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel in tow of a tug had broken adrift three miles off Maplin Head. At 4.38 the life-boat Greater London...