LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Determination
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 3.50 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coxswain/mechanic of the life-boat reported that a catamaran which hehad been watching throughout the day had broken adrift. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 4...
Troll
TOW FOR YACHT WITH NINE ABOARD Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 13th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was flashing a light off North Stack and appeared in...
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FLARES LIT FOR CLIFF SEARCH PARTY Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.36 on the night of the 15th August, 1962, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was missing on the cliffs at Durdle Door and said that the police had asked if the...
George and Elizabeth Gow
RESERVE LIFE-BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.16 on the morning of the 12th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received a request from the reserve life-boat George and Elizabeth Gow for...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
MEMBER OF LIGHTVESSEL'S CREW BROUGHT ASHORE Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.43 on the morning of the 20th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had asked if the life-boat would...
Ocean Gain
FIREMEN ON BOARD North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of i6th October, 1963, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had been told that two vessels had been in collision in Newton Bay and that one...
The Ex-Life-Boat King John
MOTOR BOAT TOW At 11.15 p.m. on 23rd November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down two to three miles north-east of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 11.35 in a...
Two Motor Boats
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 11.24 on the morning of the 28th of March, 1959, the coxswain was informed that two boats, which were drifting towards Dinas Head, appeared to be in diffi- culties as their occupants were waving frantically. The...
The Admiralty Vessel D.G.V.
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.26 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an Admiralty vessel D.G. V. 400 was aground in Donaghadee Sound. The life-boat Sarah Ward and William David...
A Speed Boat
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 9.20 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Lymington had reported a small boat in distress off the West Lepe buoy. At 9.35 the life-boat S.G.E....