LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thalassa
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was flying a distress signal near the North Carr beacon. At 1.50 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Marujita Lopez
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the trawler Marujita Lopez of San Sebastian had an injured man on board and that she was off Begnis Island. The life-boat...
Tricia
TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and...
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Appledore, Devon. An account of the service by this life-boat on ist January, 1966, will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Ameland
Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...
Newby Wyke
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 4.30 p.m. on 29th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Newby Wyke, of Hull, due at Bridlington about 4.15, had a very sick man on board. There was a moderate north westerly...
A Vessel
Fowey, Cornwall - At 10.5 a.m. on 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was submerged with about two foot of mast showing above the water, a quarter of a mile west of Polperro. The life-boat Cecil and...
Juniper
BUMPING BADLY Buckie, Banffshire. At 9 p.m. on I5th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel had grounded on the West Mucks. There was a fresh south-easterly breeze with a moderate sea, and a flooding tide. The...
Beal Bourine
UNABLE TO MOVE At 11.45 a-m- on 22nd August, 1964, the life-boat's motor mechanic was told that a motor fishing boat was on the rocks at Guileen in a choppy sea and fresh westsouth- westerly breeze. At 11.55, when the tide was at low...
Atlantis
ENGINE FAILURE Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 p.m. on nth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Atlantis then two miles south-west of Littlehampton had broken down with engine trouble and...