LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northern Star
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 12.30 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, the coxswain, knowing that there was a fishing coble at sea and realizing that the weather was getting worse, had investigated and had decided to launch the life-boat Friendly...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At i .50 p.m.
on 25th October, 1966, a rowing boat, with two young men aboard, was reported overdue from a fishing trip. The IRB was launched shortly afterwards. It was five hours after high water....
Davenport and Jenny Lemelin
On the 28th November the brig Davenport, of South Shields, was seen in a sinking state in Pake- field Gatway. The- Pakefield life-boat was at once launched; but before she could close with the vessel, the crew had taken to their long-boat,...
Phoenix 121
AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...
Winner (1)
Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland.—At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Winner of Holy Island, skippered by the life-boat coxswain, which had left at 5.30 that...
Karfinn
Yacht dragging anchor A YACHT AT ANCHOR but in difficulties in heavy seas off Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, was seen by Mumbles Coastguard and reported to the Mumbles honorary secretary at 1350 on December 19, 1973.
Maroons were...
Lloyd's II
A NEW LIFE-BOAT, Lloyd's II, was presented to the Institution at Ilfracombe, Devon, on I3th September, 1966, by Mr. R. W. Sturge, chairman of Lloyd's, on behalf of Lloyd's. The life-boat, which was so named by Mrs. Sturge,...
Category: Inaugurations
Godrevy
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.19 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been seen burning flares west of Point Le Moye. At 7.37 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out. There was...
Susie
During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.
and within a few minutes the...
None (10)
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a patient with appendicitis to South Uist hospital. At 1.55 the life-boat...