LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat
HELICOPTER RESCUE FROM SAILING BOAT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were clinging to an overturned sailing boat three miles north-east of the...
V.L.79 Maas
DUTCH TRAWLER ASHORE Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.50 p.m. on Saturday the 31st of August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler V.L.79, Maas of Vlaardingen, was ashore on the Saltscar rocks, three-quarters of...
Davneen
YACHT DRIFTS 400 YARDS FROM SHORE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.20 on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that an auxiliary yacht had been broken down for three-quarters of an hour about...
Aston Villa
Aberdeen. At 6.8 p.m. on 24th November, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that the engine room of the steam trawler Aston Villa of Grimsby was flooding two miles north-north-east of Aberdeen. This report was received direct from the...
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STRANDED ON ISLAND Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 5.25 p.m. on i3th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had seen a number of people on Sully Island who could not get back to the mainland because it was...
Zeebrugge 476
SEARCH FOR SEAMAN At 2 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard asked 'the honorary secretary if the life-boat would launch to search for a seaman who was missing from the Belgian trawler Zeebrugge 476 which had sunk at 9.20 a.m. two...
Two Sailing Dinghies
OVERTURNED DINGHIES At 11.44 a.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht in the direction of Penrhos Bay appeared to be in difficulties. A helicopter had been alerted and had already set out. The...
A Motor Yacht
TOUCHED BOTTOM At 2.29 a.m. on 8th September, 1964, the police reported a red flare over Scroby sands. The sea was choppy with a fresh westerly breeze. The tide was two hours before low water when the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched...
A Fishing Vessel
ALL FUEL LOST At 4.25 p.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel six miles south-east of Berwick Pier was flying an oilskin from her mizzen. The life-boat William and Mary Durham was...
Hazelwood II
INJURED MAN ON ISLAND Poole, Dorset. At 3.16 a.m. on 29th January, 1965 the police informed the honorary secretary that the Warden of Brownsea Island had informed them that a man with head injuries and practically unconscious had landed on...