LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Little Dick
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of the life-boat station. A moderate south-west...
Atlantic Coast
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 8.15 on the evening of the 7th July, 1961, the Chief Constable of Yar- mouth asked for the life-boat to meet a ship in the Yarmouth roads and collect a body which had been picked up about five...
Bradley
THREE RESCUED Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 1.41 a.m.
on 24th May, 1964, the Castletown coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local motor boat Bradley was reported to have broken down if miles west of Chicken Rock...
Aethon
AIDED ENGINEER'S WIFE At 2.40 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coxswain superintendent heard from a Hull shipping agent that the chief engineer's wife on board the cargo vessel Aethon of Piraeus needed urgent medical attention. The...
Luna y Sol
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...
Bonnie Lass
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...
A Canoe
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...
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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...
Green Plover
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...
Cashlow
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...