LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat
HELICOPTER RESCUE FROM SAILING BOAT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were clinging to an overturned sailing boat three miles north-east of the...
Tringer
AUXILIARY CUTTER TOWED TO PORTSMOUTH Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 10.12 on the evening of Sunday the 25th August, 1963, the Bembridge coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen half a mile north of No Mans Land...
Gerlinde
LAUNCHED IN MIST At i p.m. on 2yth May, 1964, the coastguard told the mechanic that a report had been received that a large vessel had gone aground west of the harbour entrance.
Visibility was very bad because of mist, it...
Orlando
DISMASTED CRAFT Minehead, Somerset. At 12.50 p.m.
on i2th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran had been dismasted four miles off the Foreland.
At i.20 the life-boat Sarah...
Two Sailing Dinghies
OVERTURNED DINGHIES At 11.44 a.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht in the direction of Penrhos Bay appeared to be in difficulties. A helicopter had been alerted and had already set out. The...
Waldemar Peter
GERMAN GRATITUDE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 p.m. on 4th December, 1964, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, told the honorary secretary that the German cargo vessel Waldemar Peter had on board a sick man who needed medical...
Barton Queen
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on loth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler Barton Queen was aground on Newcombe Sand two hundred yards off the harbour entrance. The life-boat Frederick Edward...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 11.50 a.m. on I5th February, 1966, the honorary secretary received an urgent call from the doctor at Bunbeg asking for the assistance of the life-boat W. M. Tihon. A young girl on Tory Island had acute appendicitis...
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Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Church bay. The coastguard rescue team and two helicopters were already searching.
The life-boat...
Guiding Light
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.25 a.m. on I2th May, 1967, it was learned that the coble Guiding Light with a man and a young boy on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The coastguard searched to the limit of visibility but could not...