LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Shortly before midday on the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the French trawler Sainte Catherine of L'Orient, with a crew of nine, had gone ashore in Dungarvan Bay. At twelve...

Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 12.44 early on the morning of the 4th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a small boat off Hobby Horse bank, near Newburgh on the Tay estuary. There was a strong north...

Girvan, Ayrshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 5th July, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that one of the light keepers on Ailsa Craig had fallen and been injured and that he needed immediate medical help.

Weymouth, Dorset. At 9.16 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a single red flare had been seen three to four miles from Portland Bill. A yacht had been reported in the area a short time...

Falmouth, Cornwall. At 7.45 on the evening of the 7th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two small boats returning from the Helford regatta were in diffi- culties in Falmouth Bay. There was a strong easterly...

Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1961, a holiday-maker told the cox- swain that a dinghy was in distress off Newbiggin Point and was drifting out to sea. There was a moderate westerly breeze, and the sea...

ROCKETS FIRED Hastings, Sussex. At 2.47 a.m. on nth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small craft had fired red rockets from a position three miles south-east of the coastguard station.

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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1957, the coastguard telephon- ed that the master of the Sunk light- vessel had reported that the yacht West Wind had made fast to the stern of the...