LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Breezes and Starfish II
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.30 p.m. on 30th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that a skiff with three people on board was in dangerous water off Mexico Beach. At 1.31 inshore rescue boat no. 5 launched in a moderate northwesterly...
Sally
TOW FOR TUG AFTER ENGINE BREAKS DOWN Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Sally of Rochester, which had a crew of two and was bound for Swansea,...
Mary
FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the principal keeper of the St.
Abbs Head lighthouse telephoned to say the local fishing coble Mary, which had...
Provider (1)
COBLE ESCORTED TO SAFETY OF BAY Flamborough, Yorkshire. On the 12th September, 1962, the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing from the north landing when a northerly gale sprang up. The life-boat coxswain went to the landing, and as...
Bread Winner and Coronation Queen
COXSWAIN'S COBLE ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.49 on the morning of the 18th January, 1963, three fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather and some concern was felt for their safety when they would enter...
Marilyn
THREE RESCUED FROM MOTOR LAUNCH Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.3 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coxswain noticed that the motor launch Marilyn of the Red Wharf Bay Sailing Club had stopped and was drifting rapidly east of Moelfre...
Skafe
CATAMARAN BEACHED AFTER CREW TAKEN OFF Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, members of the life-boat crew saw the catamaran Skafe capsize off Black Rock beach. At 1.40 the life-boat Robert Lindsay was...
A Dinghy
COLD AND EXHAUSTED MEN GIVEN RUM Youghal, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, the coxswain saw a capsized dinghy outside the harbour. At 3.25 the life-boat Herbert John was launched in a fresh south-westerly...
Famous
CREW WERE SAFE Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 4.10 a.m. on loth November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Famous was ashore on Station Point. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a slight sea, and the...
Coral Isle
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1959, the assistant honorary secretary was informed that a message had been received from the fishing vessel Coral Isle of North Shields that one of her fishermen was...