LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Canoes
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1960, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans began escorting the com- petitors in a canoe race from Watch Tower Bay towards Weston-super- Mare. There was a fresh...
Patricia Peggy
Hastings, Sussex. At nine o'clock on the night of the 30th of October, 1960, when the wind was freshening from the south-west, it was learnt that one of five trawlers, which had been out fishing, the Patricia Peggy, had not returned to...
The S.S. Harry R. Jones
Troon, Ayrshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 5th of January, 1961, the harbour master at Ardrossan informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Harry R. Jones of Wilmington, U.S.A.. on tow from the Clyde to Troon had parted the...
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Galway Bay. In the early hours of the 18th August, 1961, a message was received that a child in Kilronan was seriously ill, and the local doctor considered the child should be sent immediately to the hospital on the mainland. As no other...
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Galway. Early on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, three men from Inishere Island rowed nine miles in an open boat to Kilronan to summon a doctor to attend a sick person on the island. Telephone communications with the island had...
A Helicopter
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...
The Preston Pilot Cutter St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 23rd November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the Preston pilot cutter St. Anne had asked for the help of the life-boat as she had broken...
Mag
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Aberdeen. At 11.10 on the night of the 4th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three to four miles east-south-east of Gregness. The life-boat W...
Hoocreek
ESCORT AFTER CARGO VESSEL IS REFLOATED Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.8 early on the morning of the 22nd January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo vessel had gone aground on Newcombe sands. The coastguard made...
Christina
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FIVE ABOARD Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen coming from a converted ship's boat a mile...