LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.
on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the...
A Yacht and a Speed Boat
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.30 p.m. on i2th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized two miles north of Hartlepool.
There was a light north-easterly breeze with a calm sea. The...
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Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on...
A Dinghy (2)
TAKEN IN TOW At 11.53 a.m. on 20th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen in difficulties off Kimmeridge ledge. It was requested that the life-boat be launched. A sergeant and a constable embarked in...
A Fishing Boat (1)
At 12.22 a.m. on i6th July, 1966, a small fishing boat was seen drifting off No. 9 Sea Reach buoy. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was one hour after high water. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service...
Achieve
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from the Barnsness lighthouse that a man in a drifting fishing boat a mile east of the light- house was...
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
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TOOK SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 3.15 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the nurse at Kilronan told the honorary secretary that a sick child was in need of medical treatment at a mainland hospital. The sea was slight with a gentle north-westerly wind...
Canoes (1)
CANOES CAPSIZED Dunbar, East Lothian. At 4.40 p.m.
on nth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that two canoes had capsized off the East Beach. There was a moderate westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 30th of Novem- ber, 1954, a man at Northbay tele- phoned that a Northbay fishing boat with a crew of two was long overdue.He asked if the life-boat would search for her. At 7.10 the...