LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trawlers Remexo and Loch Park
Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.40 on the evening of the 19th of November, 1957, the life-boat night watchman reported seeing a red flare on the Binks. Two minutes later the Spurn Point coast- guard reported that the steam trawler Remexo, of Grimsby...
Colston
Dfracombe, Devon. At 5.50 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the m.v. Colston was seriously ill and needed hospital treatment, and asked if the life-boat...
Timander
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.55 on the morning of the 13th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the pilot launch, which was sheltering in Totland bay, had reported that a small yacht needed help. The pilot...
Pippa
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a German ship was standing by a British yacht, which had burnt red flares and had asked for the help of the life-boat. At...
Linda
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 1st November, 1961, a relative of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Linda informed the honorary secretary that the vessel was overdue and asked for the life-boat...
Jason
MOTOR BOAT DRIFTS FOR SIXTEEN HOURS Shor?ham Harbour, Sussex. The Shorehum coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary at 10.30 on the morning of Sunday the 29th September, 1963, to say they had received a report that the motor boat Jason...
Rivergate
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 29th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four survivors of the motor vessel Rivergate of Hull were on board the Inner Dowsing light- vessel and...
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AID FOR SKIN DIVERS Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 11.30 a.m. on I5th November, 1964, the lifeboat coxswain saw five skin divers enter the -water at the north landing and swim straight out to sea. The weather was deteriorating with a...
A Boat
Open fishing boat on rocks FISHING IN AN OPEN BOAT at about 0200 on Friday, July 9, 1976, Paul Power saw an 18' open boat go on the rocks near Falskirt Rock, 52° 08'N 7° 02'W, but, the area being filled with lobster...
Floralie (1)
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...