LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...
Kindrance
St. Ives, Cornwall. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 6th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man hadfallen overboard from the motor vessel Kindrance, eleven miles off St. Ives and that a helicopter...
Siroco
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.28 on the after- noon of the 27th of April, 1953. the Deal coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Siroco, of Boulogne, had hit a wreck in the Downs and appeared to have stuck, and at 5.35 the life-boat Charles...
Terrible Twins
Caister, Norfolk. At 9.35 on the morning of the llth of May, 1958, the motor mechanic saw a small ship's boat, which had broken down with engine trouble north of Caister Elbow buoy.
Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose...
Gillian
TOW FOR YACHT IN FOG Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 20th October, 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the coastguard that a small yacht with one man on board appeared in difficulties off St....
Orlando
DISMASTED CRAFT Minehead, Somerset. At 12.50 p.m.
on i2th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran had been dismasted four miles off the Foreland.
At i.20 the life-boat Sarah...
Barton Queen
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on loth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler Barton Queen was aground on Newcombe Sand two hundred yards off the harbour entrance. The life-boat Frederick Edward...
Apt
At 11.5 a.m. on I9th July, 1967, a call was received by the coxswain of the lifeboat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No.
35) from the fishing vessel Apt of Ilfracombe that her propeller was fouled by a trawl. The...
Bilboa, of Seatham
Soon after dark on the 28th December, signal lights and rockets were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands, by the beachmen at Caister, on the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat was at once launched, and, proceeding to the sands,...
A Rubber Mattress
Margate, Kent. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber mattress with one person on it was drifting out to sea near the Hook Sands beacon. The life- boat North Foreland...