LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Master Frank
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 5.41 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1966, the Master Frank was seen flying a distress signal. She was due in harbour at 3 o'clock. At 6.14 the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched into a moderate east...
Little Ouse
The following account of a service carried out by the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat on the 26th of March, 1960, was received too late for inclusion in the June 1960 number of the Life-boat : At 5.5 in the afternoon, the coast- guard informed...
Mille Heering
Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the evening of the 4th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Mille Heering of Copenhagen would be off Penlee about 11.45 and that medical help was...
A Boat (1)
Poole, Dorset. At 1.10 early on the morning of the 21st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with a man and his daughter aboard, which had left Wareham the evening before without lights, was overdue....
A Fishing Boat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.43 early on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that SOS signals were being sent from a small boat drifting south of Welling- ton pier. The...
Storm
SAFE RETURN Rhyl, Flintshire. About 5 p.m. on 22nd April, 1964, red flares were seen by a man on the beach who immediately told members of the life-boat crew working in the harbour. There was a gentle south-westerly breeze with a slight...
Bradley
THREE RESCUED Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 1.41 a.m.
on 24th May, 1964, the Castletown coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local motor boat Bradley was reported to have broken down if miles west of Chicken Rock...
Golden Rule
BY RADIO TELEPHONE Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 9 p.m.
on 29th April, 1964, a local man reported that he had heard a message on his radio telephone that the motor fishing vessel Golden Rule, of Stromness, needed...
A Motor Boat
Exmouth, Devon. At 10.55 on the night of the 8th of July, 1958, the Beer coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Seaton police had reported a 14-feet motor boat adrift with engine trouble off the western beach. Her owner had...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
Eastbourne, Sussex. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June,1960, the coastguard asked the cox- swain for the help of the life-boat to take off a member of the crew of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel, who was seriously ill....