LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Motor Fishing Vessels including Providence
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1960, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that four motor fishing vessels had left harbour at three o'clock. The weather had deteriorated, and as...
Embrace
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Embrace of Hartlepool had fouled her propeller two miles north of the Heugh and was...
Eildon
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.14 on the even- ing of the 9th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster was reported to be aground near the North Goodwin buoy. There was a moderate south- westerly wind, and the sea...
Caltex Lisbon
Douglas, Isle of Man. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received through Anglesey radio that the motor vessel Caltex Lisbon had a seaman on board...
Laura
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.32 on the morning of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a woman living in Ballywater that a boat was said to have disappeared near Buckie Pots off Burial Island...
A Dredger and a Hopper
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the morning of the 29th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dredger and a hopper had broken from their moorings off Workington and were drifting ashore. The life-boat Man-...
Dominance
Arbroath, Angus. At six o'clock on the evening of the 9th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore half a mile east of Arbroath. The life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched at 6.11 in...
Fishing Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED Flamborough, Yorkshire. At midday on 4th February, 1964, soon after the life-boat had returned from an exercise with the district inspector, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that the Filey honorary...
Dirkje
INTERPRETER CAME At 10.45 a.m. on iyth June, 1964, the secretary of the Berwick Infirmary told the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had asked if a boat could land the skipper as she could not enter the harbour on the ebb tide. As no...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
CLUNG TO HULL At 5.47 p.m. on 7th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported the capsizing of a sailing dinghy off Seaside Villas, Hove. Her crew of three were dinging to the hull, about half a...