LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launch Out, Vesper and Guiding Star
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say the agents for the local fishing vessels Launch Out, Vesper and Guiding Star had reported that they were at sea in very heavy weather and...
Isabela
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.28 a.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted off the S.W. Girdler buoy.
There was a fresh north-westerly wind, a moderate sea, and it was one hour...
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STRANDED When on service at the Calf of Man on i6th April, 1966, a request was made by a party of students, who were stranded on the island owing to the weather conditions, to be taken off as they had run out of food.
As...
Gloire a St. Therese
ON BOARD FRENCH TRAWLER 10.32 p.m. on i5th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the French trawler Gloire a St.
Therese of Boulogne had on board an injured man needing hospital treatment, and owing to...
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DOCTOR TAKEN Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 12.45 P-mon 12 th April, 1964, the honorary medical adviser asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Colonsay at 2 p.m. to attend the resident doctor there.
The...
Minerva
A quarter of an hour later on the same day the honorary secretary saw a boat at the harbour entrance which appeared to be in difficulties. As there was a fog and the honorary secretary was unsure of the boat's movements, inshore rescue...
Scimitar
DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...
Which-a-Way
TWO PICKED UP Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.35 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small vessel three miles south of the station was signalling for help. The sea was smooth with light airs from the...
Florentine
WAS IN DISTRESS May, Argyllshire. At 7.38 p.m. on l6th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British ship Hebrides had reported a weak radio distress call giving a position south of Mull. This was soon confirmed...
Jacqueline
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.15 a.m. on 20th January, 1965, the honorary secretary received a request from a doctor in St. Ives for the use of the St. Ives lifeboat to take an injured seaman, with suspected fractured ribs, from the Belgian...