LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INJURED MAN Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 3.45 p.m. on 18th March, 1965, the Bantry harbour master informed the honorary secretary that there was a seriously injured man on board the Spanish trawler Luna y Sol twenty miles south of Baltimore. The...

ASHORE ON ROCKS At 10.12 a.m. on iTth June, 1965, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Kindred Star told the coxswain of the life-boat that the motor fishing vessel Bonnie Lass was ashore on the Sheugh Rocks about half a mile north of the...

Abcrsoch, Caernarvonshire. At 4.35 p.m. on 15th June, 1965, the acting honorary secretary was informed that a canoe had capsized 500 yards south-east of Benor Head. At 4.40 the inshore rescue boat launched in a strong south-westerly breeze...

ILL MAN At 12.40 p.m. on 27th January, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the wife of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay stating that her husband was very ill, and when told of the...

TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL WITH ENGINE TROUBLE Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 6.20 on the evening of the 25th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Green Plover of Sunderland had broken down because...

YACHT ESCORTED TO ANCHORAGE Poole, Dorset. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Hook Sands. There was a strong south-easterly breeze...

PROPELLER TROUBLE Caister, Norfolk. At 8.50 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the police told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was flying distress signals off Caister. The life-boat motor mechanic, who was in the boat-house, confirmed...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.35 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people in a dinghy fitted with an outboard motor were shouting for help off the south beach.

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