LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 8.4 on the evening of the 18th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff near Portpatrick. At 8.14 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out in a slight...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
TWO RESCUED Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 5.12 p.m. on 18th August, 1965, the harbour office reported that a boat had capsized behind the west pier. The life-boat Dunleary II went out at 5.20 in a gentle westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...
Nusakan
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 9.50 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Nusakan of Rotterdam, which was at anchor in Tralee Bay, had asked for the life-boat to take off a seriously...
Dorothy Melinda
Hastings, Sussex. At 3.12 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been observed between four and five miles south-east of Fairlight. At 3.35, when the life-boat Lucy Lavers,...
A Launch
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7.45 on the morning of the 4th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small launch was drifting in the direction of Rhum Island and was a danger to navigation. The life-boat E. M. M....
Fishing Vessels
LOCAL FISHING FLEET ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 7th February, 1962, the honorary secretary decided that because of the bad weather conditions the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31)...
Two Fishing Vessels
COXSWAIN ESCORTED Holy Island, Northumberland. At 9.45 a.m. on 26th March, 1964, the second coxswain became anxious about two fishing vessels which were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The coxswain was on board one of them. There...
Helen
TOOK OVER TOW Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in tow of a steam ship two miles south of Bolt Head and the life-boat was asked to take over the tow. There was a...
A Dinghy (5)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.45 p.m.
on 23rd July, 1964, the honorary secretary's son learned that someone was clinging to a dinghy and calling for heJp.
At 6.47 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
A Yacht (4)
Worthing, Sussex. At 3.45 p.m. on 8th September, 1964, the beach inspector's office informed a crew member that a yacht had capsized half a mile off west Worthing. Less than four minutes later the inshore rescue boat was launched in a...