LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hunter Aircraft (4)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
None (6)
COMBINED OPERATION TO RESCUE BOY FROM CLIFF Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 29th May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy was thought to have fallen into the sea from the Little Orme's...
Scorpion
LIFE-BOAT, HELICOPTER AND MOTOR BOATS GO TO YACHT Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he could see a sailing dinghy aground in Portmadoc estuary, and...
Y.811
HELICOPTER TAKES OFF CREW OF MOTOR CRUISER Wells, Norfolk. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 19th September, 1962, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a motor cruiser might need help in the channel near the harbour bar. She was in...
None (2)
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF RUSSIAN FREIGHTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 4th October, 1962, a message was received that the freighter Zenit of Leningrad, which was anchored off the Nelson buoy, had a man on...
Fishing Cobles (1)
COBLE TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Filey, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that ten local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating...
Cameo
YACHTMEN'S FRANTIC SIGNALS Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of Sunday the 1 Ithof August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the crew of a yacht four to five miles south-south-east of Newhaven were waving...
Boy Leslie
RED FOR DANGER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.32 p.m. on 9th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Boy Leslie was burning red flares on the outer edge of the Newcombe sand. The cabin cruiser's engine had...
A Rowing Boat, a Dinghy and the Converted Trawler Alessie
HELICOPTER HELPED At 8.30 a.m. on 3151 August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men in a rowing boat about three miles offshore from his look-out were waving frantically to attract attention.
There...
Marian Ellen
DUTCH TRAWLER Walmer, Kent. At 8.44 a.m. on 5th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the East Goodwin lightvessel reported an unidentified vessel, apparently aground on the Goodwin Sands, in a position west...