LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Estella
FOUR RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.25 on the morning of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the s.s. Baltic Sun had reported a small boat in difficulties near...
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
Margaret
LATE DRIFTING Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.4 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had heard a girl shouting for help near the harbour mouth. There was a moderate south-south-westerly...
A Dinghy
CLINGING TO DINGHY At 12.40 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the Wallasey police told the honorary secretary that two men had been seen clinging to a capsized dinghy a mile north of the Leasowe lighthouse. At 12.50 the life-boat White Star, on...
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TAKEN TO DOCKS Galway Bay. Shortly before 9 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that a man in Kilronan had been seriously injured in a fall and required immediate hospital treatment.
Owing to the...
Selina
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4.10 p.m. on yth June, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a yacht off Sandsend was signalling and needed help, so at 4.30 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched. There was a light southeasterly...
Liz
ENGINE FAILURE Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.15 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been observed half-a-mile off shore at Mablethorpe. At 9.45 the lifeboat...
Calypso
ENGINE TROUBLE Clovelly, Devon. At 7.15 p.m. on i4th July, 1965, the police reported that a boat had broken down one mile off shore from Higher Sharpnose, about eight miles south of Hartland Point. The life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Spectre and Nola
RED FLARES At 10.52 a.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a 45-foot boat towing a yacht had fired three or four red flares 250 yards off Elma Beach.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at ii a.m. in a...
Ariel
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.58 p.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard told the wife of the motor mechanic that a cargo ship was on the rocks five miles east of Selsey Bill. The motor mechanic was on his way home from the previous launch and was...