LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT IN SEARCH FOR DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk. At 12.34 on the afternoon of the 12th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was in difficulty four miles north-east of...
A Speed Boat (1)
FOUR YOUTHS GET ASHORE UNAIDED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At twenty minutes past two on the afternoon of Sunday the 22nd September, 1963, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a 22-foot sptiedboat with four youths on...
Patricia
YACHT'S CREW SAVED At 12.13 P-m. on the same day the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties off Ramsgate. At 12.25 tne life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put...
Wellpark
RADIO MESSAGE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.35 a.m. on 2 ist December, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message via Valentia Radio that the motor vessel Wellpark, of Glasgow, had a crewman on board suffering from acute appendicitis. The...
Christine
SEEN FROM TRAIN Wicklow. At 12.45 a-m- on 25tn October, 1963, a driver of a train bound from Dublin to Wexford saw flares and a flashing light at sea a few miles north of Wicklow. He made an unscheduled stop, cut the engine and made his way...
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Swanage, Dorset - At 10.20 p.m.
on 10th March, 1968, the coxswain learnt that two people were missing in the Studland to Swanage area. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.30 in a gentle west by north breeze with a...
Shark Tempest
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.20 p.m.
on 12th April, 1968, a report was received that a small boat was firing flares 500 yards from Stackpool quay. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.28 in a moderate easterly...
Flip
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 10.15 p.m. on 14th September, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the motor launch Flip, with a crew of two, was overdue from a fishing trip believed to be in the vicinity of the Barrel rocks. The...
Marie Bhan
Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat needed help ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- boat was not launched immediately as all the local...
Mary Anne
Swanage, Dorset. At 12.44 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a two-masted fishing vessel, Mary Anne, had hoisted a distress signal east of Durlston Head.
Her...