LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gina
Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.
1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...
Virtuous, Just Reward, Good Way, Golden Gleam and Mary Jane
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
A Motor Boat
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...
A Dinghy (3)
Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.45 a.m. on lyth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that cries for help had been heard near Ringstead beach, four miles east of Weymouth. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke went out at 3 o'clock on an ebbing tide...
Rescue After Two Tankers Collide
AT 10.20 on the night of the 25th of October, 1960, two coastal tankers collided near the entrance to the dock at Sharpness on the Rivern Severn.
One was the Arkendale, which was loaded with 206 tons of diesel oil. The...
Category: Services
None (15)
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...
Category: Awards