LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saga
MOTORS FAILED At 4.20 p.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that he had received a message from the motor vessel Anchorman that a small fishing boat, the Saga, had broken down three miles south-east of the harbour and...
Moran
TAKEN TO STORNOWAY Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.15 P-m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Moron of Glasgow, which wished to land a sick man at Stornoway, was now off Bayble, and asked if...
Forward
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 3.34 a.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen to the north-east. At 3.47 inshore rescue boat no. 9 launched in a light south-westerly wind, a...
New Ways of Raising Money
Money-raising for the R.N.L.I, sometimes begins accidentally, as Mr. S.J. Roberts discovered at the Earls Court Radio Show in September. Mr, Roberts, a member of the Institution's staff, is also honorary secretary of the Gauge i Model...
Category: Donations
Thomas Sinclair
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 5.27 p.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a vessel making heavy weather in the very rough seas and gale force winds off the south bank of Barmouth bar. He had...
A Small Boat
HELICOPTERS HELPED Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.46 p.m. on 2ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been reported ashore on the east side of Dodman Point. One body had been recovered but another was...
Revellin
MAYDAY CALL Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.50 a.m. on 24th April, 1965, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the Spanish fishing vessel Revellin was sending out a Mayday call. There was a moderate northwesterly breeze and a slight...
Tomasina
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized in the Solent between Lymington Spit buoy and Fort Albert. The life- boat...
None (1)
Dover, Kent. At 12.51 on the after- noon of the llth of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two people were cut off by the tide two hundred yards south of St.
Margaret's Bay. There was a...
A Boat (2)
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 26th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small boat with three anglers on board was in difficulties about half a mile off the entrance to Rhyl harbour...