LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
City of Dublin
TOWED BY TANKER At 11.40 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coxswain was informed that a tanker had taken a drifting yacht in tow two miles east of Greystones. The two members of her crew had been taken aboard while, with the yacht in tow, the...
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MAN OFF CLIFFS At 9.50 a.m. on 22nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man had been washed off the cliffs at Lands End. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 10.6 in a strong west-northwesterly breeze and a...
Dee Gypsy
IRB TRANSFERRED CREW Blackpool, Lancashire. At 12.40 a.m.
on 28th August, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small yacht was firing distress flares approximately \ mile offshore near the South Pier. At one...
Dowssabell
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 10.52 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coxswain superintendent was notified by the coastguard that a small boat had broken down one and a half miles northeast of the Outer Binks buoy. There was a near gale from the...
Katcher I
AGROUND AT BRIGHTON At 6.9 a.m. on 27th September, 1965, the police at Brighton reported that a fishing vessel was aground 200 yards east of the Palace pier and that she was listing badly. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...
Herta
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.
At 7.38 a.m. on 24th November, 1965, the Dutch vessel Herta was reported aground three miles north-east of the Nelson buoy. The life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt went to the scene at 8.20...
A Fishing Boat
PAID EXPENSES At 4 p.m. on ist January, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that an unmanned fishing boat had broken away from her moorings and was drifting up the inner Tralee Bay. At the request of her owner, who promised to...
Delga I
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.50 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, information was received that the trawler Delga I of Grimsby had an injured man on board and required a doctor. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with a...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 7.25 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, it was felt that deteriorating weather conditions round Newbiggin Church Point threatened the safety of 10 cobles fishing in the area. The life-boat Mary jfoicey was launched at 7...
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D class lifeboats help nearly 600 people to safety from floodingThe sterling efforts of the crews of three North Wales lifeboats during the severe flooding which hit the area in late February 1990 have earned the stations special...