LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two youths had been trapped by the rising tide at Fisher- man's Cove. A cliff rescue team had gone to...
Erica
FOUND EMPTY DINGHY Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 12.23 a.m. on 8th February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Brighton police had seen two youths in a small dinghy drifting about a quarter of a mile off shore. No...
Gay Fiesta
AIDED CATAMARAN Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.50 p.m.
on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Gay Fiesta had reported that she was lost in Cardigan Bay and that a helicopter was...
A Dinghy
DUTCH COASTER'S SEARCH ' Walmer, Kent. At 12.52 a.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vivat had reported seeing a small boat hi which several people were shouting for help...
New Year Honours
Brigadier C. C. Fairweather, O.B.E., T.D., D.L., chairman of the Teesmouth station branch, has been made C.B.E. in the New Year Honours list.
Major K. G. Graves, J.P., chairman of the Ramsey station branch, has been awarded...
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Deevale
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 8.14 p.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was burning red flares and appeared to be ashore at South Ness. At 8.28 the lifeboat Claude Cecil Staniforth...
Swiftsure, of Fraserburgh
Life-boat 70-002 at Ullapool - At 6 a.m. on ist February, 1967, a fisherman told the coxswain that a fishing boat had struck a rock in the vicinity of Gruisard Bay and was being towed towards Ullapool.
Although the crew...
Farringay
Minehead, Somerset - At 2.30 a.m.
on loth March, 1967, the m.v. Farringay was reported aground off Minehead and bumping heavily. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 3 o'clock in a fresh north westerly wind and a...
Welsh Lady
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 1.12 p.m. on 30th April, 1967, it was learned that a boat was on fire opposite Dyffryn, seven and a half miles north of Barmouth. The coastguard had been advised of the incident by a local resident.
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Radio Gear Stolen
During the weekend I2th-i3th August, 1967, the V.H.F. and U.H.F. radio transmitter and receiving sets were stolen from the Walmer life-boat station.
The capital cost of this equipment was well over £300..
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