LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Radio Caroline
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 2.20 a.m. on 22nd December, 1965, the coastguard reported that the captain of "Radio Caroline", a wireless transmitting station, had been badly bitten by the dog that was kept on board and that a doctor was...
A Launch
POOR VISIBILITY At 2.15 p.m. on 25th May, 1966, a man informed the motor mechanic that he had seen a launch which seemed to be drifting about three miles south west of Mallaig.
The motor mechanic, together with the honorary...
Madre-de-Cristo
Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 4 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Spanish trawler Madre-de-Cristo had been badly injured, and it was requested that the life-boat meet the trawler at about 7 o'clock...
Saga Surf
Penlee, Cornwall - At n p.m. on 25th December, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to meet the tanker Saga Surf which had a very sick man on board. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
A Boat (3)
Porthdinlliaen, Caernarvonshire - At 8.45 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a man had swum ashore from a boat which was in difficulties one mile from Trevor point. There were four others on...
A Motor Cruiser
Lowestoft: On Monday May 14, 1984, a 17ft motor cruiser, with one man on board, suffered engine failure off Pakefield Beach; she was driven ashore and on to a groyne by the fresh north-easterly breeze. Reaching the cruiser at 1744,...
The S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set her course to Torbay to land her second engineer...
Julia, of Liverpool
On the night of the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind from S. to S.S.E., the barque Julia, of Liverpool, struck on the Brig Hill Bank, in Dundalk Bay. At daylight her signals of distress were seen from the shore, and the Dundalk...
Fauvette, of London
FEBRUARY 3RD. - COVERACK, CORNWALL. At 6.5 in the morning a man reported a steamer in distress near Lowland Point, and the motor life-boat The Three Sisters was launched at 6.20. A strong westsouth- westerly wind was blowing,...
Spray
NOVEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The Whitby fishing boats had gone out about 9 in the morning, and a strong S.W. wind had got up, bringing a rough sea. By three in the afternoon all had returned to harbour except the coble...