LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek Cargo Vessel Stelianos
GREEK VESSEL AGROUND At n.20 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, a message was received over the radiotelephone from Humber radio station that a small vessel, aground half a mile from Spurn Point, was asking for assistance.
The...
A Fishing Boat
TWO MEN IN WATER Salcombe, Devon. At 2.45 a.m. on loth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had capsized off Bigbury and that two men were in the water. There was a smooth sea with a light...
Star of Freedom
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 a.m. on 3rd February 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Star of Freedom of Fleetwood had struck an unidentified object fifteen miles...
The Spanish Motor Fishing Vessel Redondela
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES Islay, Inner Hebrides. At about i a.m. on 24th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Spanish motor fishing vessel Redondela of Vigo was aground on Rhuda-na-Leacon three miles south of...
A Dinghy (6)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy fitted with an outboard engine, with two children on board, had run out of petrol and was in the tide...
Calvijn
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of February, 1961, the mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Calvijn of The Hague was aground on Newton Point. At...
Royal Air Force Launch No. 1386
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was asked by the sergeant in charge of Royal Air Force launch No. 1386 if the life-boat could put himself and his crew on board their launch, which...
Rose Valley, of Wick
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.2 p.m. on 2nd May, 1966, it was reported that a small fishing boat was drifting on to rocks at St. John's Point, Mey. Thelife-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 6.30 in a slight south...
Melvin
Aith, Shetlands - At 9.10 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Foula mailboat had been reported overdue. She was last seen six miles east-south-east of Foula, apparently drifting. The life-boat John...
A Helicopter
At 3.37 p.m. on I4th June, 1966, there was an alert that a helicopter had crashed in the Solent near West Lepe buoy. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings together with.
the IRB at 3.55 p.m. There was a...