LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ronsay
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 8.19 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the yacht Ronsay was in difficulty between Abersoch and Aberaeron. The life- boat St. Albans was launched at...
Margaret and Goshawk
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 27th of July, 1957, a telephone message was re- ceived that a yacht with her sails badly torn was eight miles south of Campbeltown. A fishing vessel was alongside her and she was in no...
Sheila
FAULTY COMPASS Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 p.m. on 6th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat had been seen flashing a light 50 yards off Prah sands. Shouts for help were also heard.
At 11.45 the...
A Dinghy (1)
FIVE WERE MISSING Troon, Ayrshire. At 6.30 p.m. on i ith October, 1964, the coxswain heard that five men of the St. Michael Sub Aqua Club had failed to return from a trip to Lady Isle. The sea was smooth with a light north-easterly breeze....
A Speed Boat
RESCUED FROM SPEEDBOAT Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.15 p.m.
on i6th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small and overloaded speedboat was in difficulties about three-quarters of a mile east by...
Pamela
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.45 early on the morning of the 4th of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two red flares had been seen three miles east- north-east of Morecambe Bay light- vessel. At 2.10 the...
Binty
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a message had been received from a resident at Hove that the crew of a small boat about two miles off the King Alfred...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.49 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men, who had put out in a rowing boat to search for a body reported in the water, were in difficulties off...
A Dinghy
Taking water ON SUNDAY, JULY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Horton and Port Eynon ILB station that red flares had been reported off Oxwich Point, and at 2007 the ILB was launched and set course at full speed for the...
Kingfish
MOTOR LAUNCH SANK At 3.5 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a motor launch which had gone out across the bar in heavy weather to attempt to salvage a capsized sailing boat had sprung a leak.
The...