LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Quinquereme
ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...
Ros Caoin
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of April, 1958, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ros Caoin needed help at the mouth of the Kenmare River. At 6.30 the life-boat William and Harriot, on...
Salonika
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.53 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1960, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Brake Sands three and a half miles south of Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael...
Zoraida
Montrose, Angus. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 29th August, 1961, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that the ketch Zoraida was drifting three miles north of Montrose.
The life-boat The Good Hope was launched...
A Mechanical Digger
Driver saved from sinking digger Helensburgh - Scotland South Division Helensburgh's Atlantic 21 carried out an unusual rescue on 29 May 1989 when a survivor was safely landed from a mechanical digger which had become bogged down with a...
Heye P.
Coaster on rocks A VESSEL on the rocks at Prawle Point was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by Prawle Point Coastguard at 2233 on Sunday December 16, 1979. Less than ten minutes later Salcombe's 47ft Watson...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the chairman of the branch, who was acting as honorary secretary, that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half from South Pirsey...
A Speed Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on 2oth February, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small speedboat had broken down and appeared to be in difficulties. A helicopter from Manston had been alerted and hovered over the...
Mary II
DRIFTING CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the police had reported a cabin cruiser adrift in the river Humber, but...
Sea Clown
TOW FOR MOTOR WSSEL WITH FIVE ABOARD Hastings, Sussex. At 3.57 p.m. on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the wife of the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Sea Clown of Rye had broken down off Pett Level. There was...