LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez
Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan...
The Turbocraft Doughty
Walmer, Kent. At 5.8 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1960, flares and rockets were spotted over the Good- win Sands near the wreck of the N.E.
Victory by the life-boat mechanic and others on the sea front. A...
Jura
Cromer, Norfolk. At 11.20 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Lloyd's agent had asked for the assistance of the life-boat to refloat the motor vessel Jura of Gronin- gen, which...
Canoes
Walmer, Kent. At 3.18 on the after- noon of the 20th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that he had seen from the cliff-top at St. Margaret's two canoeists capsize about a mile off shore in choppy...
An Aircraft,and Medea
At noon on 26th August, 1966, the Air Commandant, Guernsey Airport, told the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed off Alderney and asked if the life-boat could be sent to investigate.
Three aqua-lung divers, who...
A Dinghy and Team
At 11.30 a.m. on 3oth April, 1967, news was received that a small dinghy had broken down one and a half miles off shore. The IRB was launched and the coastguard then reported that a red flare had been sighted from another boat. The IRB -was...
Royal Empire, Silver Line and Gallilee
MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a strong N.E. wind was blowing with a very rough sea. About 10.15 it was learnt that two small fishing boats were returning. Then just as the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
The American Steamer Samuel Parker
APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Information was picked up by North Foreland Radio and passed through the coastguard to the life-boat station that a steamer was aground off Great Yarmouth and in need of tugs. At 7.11 in...
Gwydyr Castle
On the night of the 20th March the harbour tug and the Life-boat Bradford were again called out to the assistance of the barque Gwydyr Castle, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the north end of the Goodwin Sands while bound from Port Pirie...
Teucer and David Livingstone
DECEMBER 7TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
An outward-bound convoy. under the command of Rear-admiral Ramsey, was passing. A gale was blowing and a drifter, which should have been there to bring ashore the pilots, had not arrived,...