LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marjon Two
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a cabin cruiser was showing distress signals a mile and a half west of Southend pier. At 4.50 the life-boat Greater...
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Anstruther, Fifeshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel had fired a red flare on a bearing west-by-south of Elie Ness. At...
Enterprise
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Stornoway, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Enterprise of Stornoway had broken down one mile off...
Coronation
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 10th September, 1968, the honorary secretary was notified that flares had been sighted off Pakefield. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.9 in a gentle south easterly wind with...
Merlin
At 9.20 p.m. on 5th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat was firing red flares two miles from the lookout. Ten minutes later the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a calm sea and an ebbing tide. At 9.55 she found the...
A Pontoon
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 6.35 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coxswain received a request for the help of the life-boat to take workmen off Messrs. Wimpey's pontoon. He contacted the honorary secretary, who authorised the...
Children's Friend
DRIFTING VESSEL At 2.31 p.m. on gth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was drifting in a moderate sea and a fresh south-easterly breeze off the Point of Ayre. The...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 3.40 p.m. on I5th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small sailing dinghy with two men on board had capsized a quarter of a mile off shore between Sandy Cove and Towyn. The life-boat Anthony Robert...
Norseman
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 p.m. on 29,th May, 1965, the fishing boat Norseman was reported aground on the Spur of Muckle. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 2.30. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
A Canoe
CANOE CAPSIZED Dover, Kent. At 1.5 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the honorary secretary learned that a canoe with one man aboard was drifting towards the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 1.20 in a strong south-westerly...