LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mercure
Life-boat 70-002, Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty - At 6.2 p.m. on 25th November, 1966, the police told the assistant district inspector, who was in command of the life-boat 70-002, that flashing lights had been sighted in the vicinity of Martin...
Kantara
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.5 a.m. on 6th September, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in Bowleaze cove. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke was launched. It was low water. She came up with the cabin...
The American Forces Tug No. 672 and a Ship's Boat
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - THE MUMBLES, AND BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
The American Forces tug N o . 6 7 2 had grounded on the Tusker Rock, off Porthcawl, but she overturned before the life-boat reached the scene. Eight of her...
Jill
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.55 in the evening of the 9th of June, 1948, news came that a fishing boat was on the revetment near C.7 black buoy, with the tide ebbing, and was in some danger. At 8.10 the No. 2 motor life- boat Edmund and Mary...
Thelma
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.18 on the evening of the 19th of July, 1953, the coxswain was rung up with the news that the motor launch Thelma, of Fishguard, was in distress off the northern breakwater. At 9.36 the life-boat White Star was...
Thomas Sinclair
Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 10.35 p.m.
on 13th November, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted by the army authorities off St. Govan's head in the Bullslaughter bay area. The life-boat Richard Vernon...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Ocean Venture, Lead Us, and Wakeful
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 12.40 p.m.
on 5th January, 1967, news was received that three local fishing vessels were still at sea and the weather was deteriorating rapidly with very heavy seas breaking at the approach to the...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire - At 7.53 a.m.
on 6th February, 1967, news was receivedreceived that there was a sick man on the Dowsing lightvessel who needed to be taken ashore. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 8.45...
Richmond Castle
ENGINEER INJURED St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.55 a.m. on igth August, 1965, news came that the motor vessel Richmond Castle had an injured man on board and had requested medical help. Her position at one o'clock would be eleven...
Junco
DEC. 19TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.25 A.M. news was received from the Castletown coastguard that a vessel was ashore at Langness Point. An E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell.
The motor life-boat...