LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 7.50 a.m.

on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Belgian trawler Prins Boudewijn of Ostend had been reported on fire one mile west of St. Anne's Head. There was...

YACHT WAS LEAKING Padstow, Cornwall. At 10.38 p.m.

on 18th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that flares had been reported at Newland Island. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze with a slight sea...

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 6.35 p.m.

on pth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's life-boat was three hours overdue with eight people on board, including three young children....

Falmouth, Cornwall. At 12.8 p.m.

on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles off Porthbear Beach. There was a gale from the northwest with a rough sea. It was one...

Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 2.15 p.m. on I9th June, 1966, a report was received that a capsized yacht was adrift one mile east of the lookout. There was a strong southerly wind with a choppy sea. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick proceeded at...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - Thirty minutes after midnight on 5th June, 1966, a message was received that the m.f.v.

Sanu was aground at Tresco and her owner had asked for life-boat assistance.

There...

SURGEON AND ANESTHETIST TAKEN TO ISLAND Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1962, a request was received from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the life-boat to take a surgeon and an anaesthetist to a hospital in Lamlash,...

MR. E. SELBY DAVIDSON, who died on the 8th August, 1963, was honorary secretary of the Tynemouth life-boat station for 24 years. He was appointed in September, 1939, and from May, 1962, served as joint honor- ary secretary with Captain D....