LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Belle Isle and Isabella
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn....
Star of Hope
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.15 on the evening of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the drifter Star of Hope was stranded on the Scroby Sands and was asking for help. There was a...
A Motor Barge
At 1.20 p.m. on I4th April, 1967, a motor barge was reported aground on a sandbank west of Margate pier. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 1.45 in a strong north east breeze and a rough sea. It was three hours...
La Voyageuse
Torbay, Devon - At 3.33 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor cruiser had gone aground on the rocks south of Mansands. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 6.45 to...
Two Canoes
Eastney, Hampshire. At 4.15 p.m.
on 6th November, 1965, a fisherman told the honorary secretary that a wildfowler was waving for assistance on South Binness Island. After receiving confirmation of the report from the...
Fokke de Jong Sr.
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 11.40 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light northerly breeze and in a slight swell. A ship had been reported aground on the east side of Call. It was one hour after...
Eileen M and a Dinghy
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 7.12 a.m.
on 12th January, 1966, the coastguard at Portpatrick informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Eileen M of London was ashore on the Mull of Oa. The lifeboat Francis W. Wotherspoon...
The Wireless Transmitting Station Radio Scotland
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 7 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, a newspaper office telephoned the honorary secretary to ask if the Dunbar life-boat Margaret had been launched to the wireless transmitting station Radio Scotland, as they had been...
S.S. A.F.A.
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At ii a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a call from the owners of the Fleetwood trawler SSAFA saying that the vessel had on board a seriously injured...
A Mirror Dinghy
Adrift on ebb tide TWO SAILING DINGHIES capsized off Crail Harbour were reported to the honorary secretary of Anstruther lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1524 on Saturday, May 8. A local rescue boat had been asked to go out and the call...