LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht Tender
Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...
Provider
Cromer, Norfolk-At 10.59 a.m. on llth May, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Provider with a crew of three had broken down just above Overstrand. The lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 11.8...
Cilla
Weymouth, Dorset-At 11.20 a.m.
on 5th June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Cilla with a one-man crew had broken down nine miles from Portland Bill. The lifeboat Frank Spiller...
Rosemary
Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.12 p.m. on 2nd May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was firing red flares one mile north of the life-boat station. At 7.45 the life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane was...
Fiona
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.19 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, information was received that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile south of Hopelake and that the crew of two were signalling for assistance. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 1.26 in...
The S.S. Cairngowan
Stornoway, Hebrides. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 27th July, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from Lewis hospital that the s.s. Cairngowan, which was due to arrive off Chicken Head at 4.30, needed the services...
Merry Widow
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1956, a beach patrolman at Egremont ferry rang up to say that a cabin cruiser was in distress and drifting off Egremont ferry. The life-boat Norman R. Cor- lett put out at...
Skua
Wick, Caithness - At 12.3 p.m. on 17th October, 1969, the coastguard sent a message to the coxswain of the life-boat that a red flare had been sighted some four to five miles south of the coastguard lookout and that there was a small boat in...
None (1)
Appledore, Devon - At 7.16 p.m. on 12th April, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two boys were stranded on the rocks on the south side of Baggy point. The lifeboat Louisa Anne Hawker with the boarding boat in tow slipped...
Bronwin (1)
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.28 p.m. on 6th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen off the Martello tower at Seaford. There was a moderate south-westerly breeze with a corresponding sea. The tide was...