LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gay Guy
SLOOP CAPSIZED Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.38 p.m. on 3rd October, 1964, the east pier watchman told the coxswain that two small boats were in difficulties in a rough sea and fresh north-easterly breeze off Brake sands. One was believed to have...
Shantimere
Dungeness, Kent - At 6.8 p.m. on 21st June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was firing flares two miles north east of the life-boat station. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was...
Mandala
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 1.5 a.m. on 20th December, 1968, it was learnt that the coaster Eden Fisher had sighted red flares to the west of Strumble Head. At 1.30 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched.
There was a...
Mr C E Link
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
Category: Obituaries
Centurion
Dover, Kent - At 10.17 P-m- 5tn August, 1966, the brigantine Centurion, returning from the tall ship race to Copenhagen, radioed that one of her crew needed medical attention. At 10.40 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched with a doctor...
Margaret Sinclair
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 12.45 p.m. on 29th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Sinclair was long overdue on a passage from Stornoway to Castlebay. The lifeboat The James...
Diver Boy
Newhaven, Sussex - At 4.40 p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard in-formed the honorary secretary that two red flares had been reported seven to 10 miles off Seaford Head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.50 in a gentle...
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Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...
Karin Hoegh
Cromer, Norfolk - At 10.55 P-m- on 29th May, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Danish fishing vessel had a sick man on board who required a doctor. The no. 2 lifeboat William Henry and Mary King was launched at...
Telima
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 9.36 p.m. on loth June, 1967, it was reported that a cabin cruiser had gone aground in Scratchells bay. After further investigation, the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe and the IRB were launched at 10.59 in...