LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gale Gazelle
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 12.15 p.m. on loth July, 1964, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew saw a speedboat capsize half a mile off shore from the harbour entrance. The inshore rescue boat immediately launched in a fresh north-westerly...
The Scarweather Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL MASTER ILL At 12.45 p.m. on 6th February, 1965, the Superintendent of Trinity House informed the honorary secretary that the Master of Scarweather lightvessel was sick and asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to him. At 1...
Lady Isle
BROKEN FUEL PUMP At 3.57 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Lady Isle of Troon had broken her fuel pump seven miles west of Sanda Island. At 4.15 the lifeboat City of Glasgow II...
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
S.S. Sea Minstrel
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Port Medical Officer advised the life- boat coxswain that the cargo vessel S.S.
Sea Minstrel, of Dover, was expected off the port at one o'clock...
The S.S. Mathilda
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 12th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had warned off a vessel in a dangerous position one and a half miles south by west of the Goodwin Lightvessel, and at...
A Speed Boat
Hartlepool, Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of 3rd of July, 1960, the second coxswain was informed that a speed- boat had capsized off the breakwater.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 7) was launched at...
Solveig
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1960, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched on exercise in a light westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was half ebb. Soon after the life-boat had...
The Sea School Training Vessel Radium
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.32 on the night of the 1st of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen five miles north-west of Buckie. There was a light east-south-easterly wind with a...
Patricia Peggy
Hastings, Sussex. At nine o'clock on the night of the 30th of October, 1960, when the wind was freshening from the south-west, it was learnt that one of five trawlers, which had been out fishing, the Patricia Peggy, had not returned to...