LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Trawler Robert Schou
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.22 a.m.
on igth August, 1966, the Danish trawler Robert Schou was reported aground at Proudfoot. There was a light south south westerly breeze with a slight sea. The lifeboat Thomas McCunn, on...
Radio Caroline
At 5.34 p.m. on 26th May, 1967, it was learned that Deal coastguard had intercepted a call from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline asking for assistance to bring ashore a crew member with a badly burned arm. The life-boat Cecil...
Mick the Miller
At 3.39 a.m. on 7th June, 1967 it was learned that red flares had been sighted two or three miles south south east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse Lumb waslaunched at 3.50 in a slight westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing....
Violet Stephenson, Seaflower and Golden Gleam
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 1.25 p.m. on 8th August, 1967, concern was felt for three cobles salmon fishing off Alnmouth in deteriorating weather conditions. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 2.10 in a moderate...
Depaky II, of Santiago
Margate, Kent - At 9.10 a.m. on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. The IRB was launched at 9.20 in a light south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. It was low water. When...
A Canoe (1)
At 5.18 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an R.A.F. helicopter had been dispatched to search for a light blue two seater canoe missing between North Foreland and Deal. The canoe was last seen one...
Isa Simpson and Sunbeam
JAN. 19TH -. GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At about 3.30 P.M. a report was received from Johnshaven that the local fishing boats Isa Simpson and Sunbeam were at sea, and that owing to the bad weather they were making for...
Morn,
JUNE 1 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At about noon a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth.
The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
Alanfred
JUNE 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a motor yacht two miles to the S.W. was drifting, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Thais
AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...