LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bermuda
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel appeared to be aground one mile north-west of Mid Barrow lightvessel. The life-boat crew were...
The S.S. Lindi
Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 19th of July, 1959, the life-boat W and S was launched at the request of the port medical officer to take him to the s.s. Lindi of Antwerp, as one of her crew was very ill. There...
Fishing Cobles (2)
COBLES AT SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.5 a.m. on 25th April, 1964, the life-boat second coxswain reported that there was a very heavy swell on the harbour bar and that several local fishing cobles, one of which had been reported to have...
White Cloud
FREED FROM SANDS At 7.40 p.m. on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser ashore on the Hook Sands had fired a red rocket. There was a moderate south-easterly breeze with a choppy sea and a flooding...
Saga
MOTORS FAILED At 4.20 p.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that he had received a message from the motor vessel Anchorman that a small fishing boat, the Saga, had broken down three miles south-east of the harbour and...
Galaxy
BROKEN CROSS-TREES Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.56 a.m. on igth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Cork lightvessel had reported a yacht in distress near Cork sands. There was a slight sea with a gentle...
Mi Amigo
HEARD RADIO MESSAGE At 3.55 p.m. on 27th July, 1964, the second coxswain of the life-boat told the honorary secretary that a message had been picked up from Radio Caroline, a broadcasting station on board the motor vessel Mi Amiga, that a...
A Fishing Boat
TWO MEN IN WATER Salcombe, Devon. At 2.45 a.m. on loth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had capsized off Bigbury and that two men were in the water. There was a smooth sea with a light...
Finnkraft
AID FOR FINNS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At i.io p.m. on ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fimkraft of Helsinki, then five miles north-west of Bardsey Island, had an injured man on...
A Dinghy (4)
HELICOPTER FOUND THEM At 12.15 a.m. on 8th August, 1964, a local resident told the honorary secretary that he was anxious about the safety of a friend and his son who were fishing in a small dinghy. They had been out since 6 p.m. the...