LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
HANDKERCHIEF SIGNAL At 10.42 a.m. the next day, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Plympton police had reported that a boat needing help about a mile off Bovisand was under observation from Breakwater Fort and did...
Epomeo
EIGHT ABOARD YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 12.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Epomeo had engine trouble and would probably need help. At 12.30 the coastguard confirmed this,...
Ramona
NEAR PORTLAND BILL Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.30 p.m. on 9th November, 1964, the coxswain was told by a shipping agency that the Dutch motor vessel Ramona was drifting in choppy seas and a moderate south-easterly wind five miles south of...
Freeleen
ESCORTED At 6.12 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Freeleen had broken down one and a half miles south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 6...
Determination
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 3.50 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coxswain/mechanic of the life-boat reported that a catamaran which hehad been watching throughout the day had broken adrift. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 4...
George and Elizabeth Gow
RESERVE LIFE-BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.16 on the morning of the 12th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had received a request from the reserve life-boat George and Elizabeth Gow for...
Marabut
DEAD WOMAN FOUND IN SEA Anstruther, Fife. At 12.49 on the afternoon of Wednesday the 31 st of July, 1963, the coastguard at Anstruther informed the honorary secretary that the Polish trawler Marabut had reported that she was standing by the...
Stakesly Rose, Success, Pilot Me and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the after- noon of the 22nd of January, 1959, the coxswain was informed that four local fishing boats were still at sea. As there was a big fresh coming down the river and a strong northerly wind was blowing, it was...
A Motor Boat
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was stranded on a sandbank a mile and three quarters south-west of...
May Fly
Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was unable to make Ramsgate harbour and was dragging her anchor and in danger of going ashore. Six minutes...