LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nessie
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH BROKEN RUDDER Sunderland, Durham. At 3.12 on the afternoon of the 3rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a beach attendant at Seaburn had reported a boat burning red flares two...
Lillian
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER NEAR ROCKS Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard reported that a small cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down half a mile south of Boddam, and at 1.45 the...
Nanica
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. About five o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th April, 1963, the Wallasey police informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was seen to be in trouble off the auxiliary...
Silver Star
THREE MEN RESCUED Filey, Yorkshire. At 1.47 p.m. on I3th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had broken down four and a half miles off Gristhorpe and had fired three distress flares. The life-boat...
Sea Rigs
MAINSAIL WAS TORN At 8 a.m. on i4th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on St. Agnes had seen a small yacht anchored off the Big Smith Ledges and appearing to be dragging her anchors.
There...
A Boat (1)
BOAT DRIFTING Clogher Head, Co. Louth. The lifeboat George and Caroline Ermen had been at sea during the afternoon of 26th June, 1965, escorting boats attending the Boyne Yacht Club regatta and had just returned to her station when a message...
Calypso
ENGINE TROUBLE Clovelly, Devon. At 7.15 p.m. on i4th July, 1965, the police reported that a boat had broken down one mile off shore from Higher Sharpnose, about eight miles south of Hartland Point. The life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...
None (9)
Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.13 P-m- °n I5th August, 1965, news came that a man and a boy were cut off by the tide on the west side of Lansallos beach. The lifesaving apparatus team were on their way and the assistance of the life-boat was...
Penarven
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.5 p.m.
on 9th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing vessel had broken down in the Helford River opposite the Ferry Boat Inn and that she was dragging her anchor. The...
None (14)
Exmouth, Devon - At 2.40 a.m. on igth May, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was lying injured at the foot of the cliffs between Otter and Brandy Head, near Budleigh Salterton, and he could not be reached from the...