LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Good Fellowship
Blyth, Northumberland. At 9.40 on the evening of the 26th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident of Seaton Sluice had seen a red flare two miles east of Collywell Bay. Further enquiries were made, after...
Haminea
INJURED CAPTAIN At 7.30 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coxswain heard from the honorary secretary that the life-boat would be needed to bring ashore the captain of the motor vessel Haminea of London who was badly injured. At 8.30 the life-boat...
Delft
HELP FOR DUTCH At 2.5 p.m. on 29th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the Dutch fishing vessel Delft was approaching Spurn with an injured man on board and that a doctor's services were requested. There...
Mi Amigo
HEARD RADIO MESSAGE At 3.55 p.m. on 27th July, 1964, the second coxswain of the life-boat told the honorary secretary that a message had been picked up from Radio Caroline, a broadcasting station on board the motor vessel Mi Amiga, that a...
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...
A Dinghy (4)
HELICOPTER FOUND THEM At 12.15 a.m. on 8th August, 1964, a local resident told the honorary secretary that he was anxious about the safety of a friend and his son who were fishing in a small dinghy. They had been out since 6 p.m. the...
None (3)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1960, a request was received from the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the life-boat to bring ashore an injured keeper from Tuskar Rock light- house and take...
A Fighter Aircraft
Kirkcudbright. At 10.53 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed by the police that a fighter aircraft had crashed in the vicinity of Blackshaw Flats in the area of Southerness. It had apparently...
Amanda Jane
Barry Dock, Glamorgan. At 5.2 on the afternoon of the 6th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small yacht Amanda Jane of Cardiff was making distress signals off Sully hospital a little to the east of Barry. A...
None (10)
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a patient with appendicitis to South Uist hospital. At 1.55 the life-boat...