LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Polly Cook
Kirkcudbright. At three o'clock on the morning of the 4th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman had telephoned expressing alarm at the continued absence of her husband, who had left the previous...
Ros Sennan
Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.40 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961.
the coxswain learnt that a motor fishing boat was on the Wolves rocks three miles south-south-west of Wicklow Head and was in immediate danger. At 8.50,...
Sally Brown
WOMAN WAVED FOR HELP Cromer, Norfolk. At 4.5 p.m. on 5th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht with a man and a woman on board was reported to be in difficulties close inshore near Mundesley Church. A rope had...
Karen
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY NORWEGIAN STEAMER ALL NIGHT Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 7.10 on the evening of the 25th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian steamer Karen of Haugesund needed help off Dunnet...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 7th January, 1963, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had been...
A Yacht (3)
THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue....
S.S. M. Bingul
7,000-TON CARGO SHIP ON GOODWIN SANDS Walmer, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of Tuesday the 10th of September, 1963, Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that an unidentified cargo vessel was aground on the Goodwin Sands mid-way...
A Dinghy (2)
IRELAND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.20 a.m.
on 2yth October, 1964, the coxswain was told by a crew member of the Dutch fishing vessel Van Maria that another member of his crew had gone out in a rubber dinghy but had not...
Shaula
On Saturday June 13, at 0420, red flares were sighted east of the station by Ramsey Coastguard. It was an overcast morning with a gale force 8 blowingfrom the south. The sea was rough and it was an hour after low...
None (1)
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 12.10 p.m.
on 20th July, 1969, Valentia radio told the honorary secretary that the tanker Point Law had reported that a number of people were waving flags and flashing lights on the Great Blasket...