LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jean Luc
SAVED FROM SINKING Eastbourne, Sussex. At 4.47 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was flashing a distress signal from a position close inshore one mile east of Beachy Head lighthouse. The tide had...
Sea Dawn
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 6.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1967, news was received that the ketch Sea Dawn had engine failure 14 miles north west of the Corsewall lighthouse. The life-boat The Jeanie slipped her moorings at 6.59 in a gentle...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dinghy and catamaran A TELEPHONE MESSAGE from HM CoaStguard at 1410 on Saturday March 28 informed Mudeford lifeboat station that a sailing dinghy had capsized on Mudeford sand bar; her mast was broken and she was in difficulties. A moderate...
Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory
OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned by 6.40 P.M.,...
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JULY 26TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
A lady doctor, a visitor on holiday, developed acute appendicitis. An immediate operation was necessary. No other boat was available and the local doctor asked the life-boat to take her...
The Phoenix 121
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the phoenix 121, one of the concrete caissons used for building the invasion port on the coast of Normandy, to which the life-boat had...
Pride and Sceptre
JANUARY 21ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with snow storms. The sea was very rough. Two local motor fishing boats, Pride and Sceptre, were at sea, line-fishing, and at noon the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
Venturer
JUNE 28TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 2.30 P.M. information was received that the fishing boat Venturer, of Arklow, was in distress in Courtown Bay. A southerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 3 P.M.
Two Aircraft
AUGUST 18TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 2.30 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that two aircraft were down five miles S.W. of the lookout. An air battle was in progress, and a few minutes later the coastguard reported three more machines down. A...
Invermore
AUGUST 27TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.45 A.M. a message was received from the coast watchers at Greenore Point that a vessel had grounded on the Splaugh Rock. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was...