LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Gun Boat Vaedderen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.40 a.m. on 8th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish gunboat Vaedderen had a seriously sick man, the skipper of Grimsby trawler Northern Chief, on board and was proceeding to...
Alpheta
On the 21st November, at 9 P.M., it was reported that a vessel was ashore on Bembridge Ledge. The wind was blowing a moderate gale from S.W. at the time, accompanied by thick rain. The Life-boat went off, as did also two fishing-boats; the...
A Schooner
In the early hours of the morning of 5th April, the Coxswain was roused by fishermen who reported that a vessel was apparently in distress on the South Tail. Although no signals of distress were seen, it was thought advisable to send out the...
Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Oving- dean, and that her crew of two were clinging to her. At 6.35 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 5th November the local fishing cobles Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II put out to the fishing grounds During the morning the wind backed into the north-east and increased to a strong gale, with...
A Dinghy (1)
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AS SPEEDBOAT TOWS DINGHY Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three men in a 14-foot dinghy were signalling for help half a mile east...
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...
Stellar
FRENCH YACHT FOUND BY EQUIPMENT Swanage, Dorset. At 8.5 on the morning of the 4th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French yacht Stellar's engine had broken down twenty miles off Poole and the yacht...
Silver Star
THREE MEN RESCUED Filey, Yorkshire. At 1.47 p.m. on I3th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had broken down four and a half miles off Gristhorpe and had fired three distress flares. The life-boat...