LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (5)
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 8.56 p.m. on 4th August, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in trouble about two miles north-east of Ramsey. At 9.6 the yacht was reported to be making heavy weather and...
H.M.S. Malcolm
MOTHER WAS ILL At 9.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Malcolm was due to arrive off Scarborough at 10 p.m. and had to land a rating who needed to see his seriously ill mother. The high tide and...
Lucelle
SOUGHT REFUGE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.30 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Lucelle, with fuel trouble, had taken refuge alongside the Bar lightvessel in rough seas and a...
Boy Alan
Seaham, Durham - At 7.33 p.m. on 22nd December, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted south of Seaham. The life-boat Amelia, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.38 in a strong south...
None (8)
FLARES LIT FOR CLIFF SEARCH PARTY Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.36 on the night of the 15th August, 1962, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was missing on the cliffs at Durdle Door and said that the police had asked if the...
Livanita (1)
SECOND SERVICE TO NORWEGIAN MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.15 on the morning of the 27th February, 1963, the port medical officer telephoned to say that the motor vessel Livanita of Grimstad, which had a sick man on board, was...
Eileen
ESCORTED TO SAFETY At 8.15 a.m. on loth November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Eileen had not returned to the harbour since leaving at two o'clock the previous afternoon. In view of the worsening...
A Speed Boat
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 9.20 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Lymington had reported a small boat in distress off the West Lepe buoy. At 9.35 the life-boat S.G.E....
A Sailing Boat and a Rowing Boat
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1956, the second coxswain reported that he had seen a sailing boat capsize about a mile and a half from Castle Point. The life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was...
A Yacht (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a boat had been reported appar- ently in distress off the Cliff Hotel, Holland-on-Sea. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...