LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 29th of January, 1961, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties off Cullercoats. In the absence of the honorary secretary he ordered the life- boat to...
Alethea Anne
Hastings, Sussex. At 3.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that an unknown vessel had broken down about three miles east of Rye Harbour. When the lifeboat M.T.C. was launched at 3.58...
Teddy Bear
Walmer, Kent. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Teddy Bear, which was two miles east of the Goodwin Fork buoy, had engine trouble and her crew...
Aline II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.43 on the night of the 10th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht without lights was drifting on the strong ebb tide. There was a strong south-south- easterly...
A Boat (2)
Hartlepool, Durham. At five o'clock on the morning of the 27th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen drifting about three miles east- south-east of Hartlepool. Nobody could be seen...
A Motor Boat (1)
BOAT WAS OVERDUE Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men who had gone in a canoe to help a motor boat with an engine breakdown had been away for a long time. Although...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
MASTHEAD SIGNAL At 12.43 P-m- on 6tn September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was flying articles of clothing at her masthead. There was a choppy sea with a fresh northwesterly breeze. It was two...
Tessa
NOT MANAGEABLE Later the same day, a number of the life-boat crew heard a radio message broadcast from the North Foreland transmitting station stating that the motor yacht Tessa was in difficulties two miles east-south-east of the East...
Farsaell
ICELANDIC VESSEL Longhope, Orkneys. At i p.m. on i6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Icelandic fishing vessel Farsaell was adrift in moderate seas off Torness. She had engine trouble and required...
Mako
MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate...