LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PERITONITIS PATIENT Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.30 a.m.

on yth January, 1964, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that the trawler Millwood of Aberdeen, which was being towed by the trawler Janwood 12...

Whitstable, Kent. At 7.5 p.m. on I7th August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Philandees which had gone aground on the "street" at low water was now drifting out to sea, that her anchor was not...

TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...

TWO SAVED AFTER SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZES Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized half a mile south of the harbour entrance. The...

CAUGHT IN HERRING NET Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.58 a.m. on nth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a mile and a half from Lowestoft coastguard lookout. There was a fresh...

Galway Bay. At ten o'clock on the night of the 29th of August, 1959, a member of the life-boat's crew saw flares being fired between Aran and the Connemara Coast. He informed the honorary secretary, and at 10.25 the life-boat Mabel...

Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1959, a message reached the life-boat- house that cries for help had been heard from a half-decked fishing boat ashore on the beach a quarter of a mile west of the...

Runswick, Yorkshire. About noon on the 17th of April, 1960, the weather began to deteriorate, and as the fishing boat Dolphin of Staithes was at sea with a crew of three, it was decided to launch the life-boat The Elliott GUI to escort the...