LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tiberian
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.35 p.m. on i7th November, 1966, a message was received that a man aboard the Grimsby trawler Tiberian required certain medicine prescribed for him by a doctor who was in the harbour office.
The...
A Dinghy (2)
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 1.35 p.m. on 9th April. 1967, the British Rail steamer Faringford informed the honorary secretary that a small dismasted sailing boat was drifting rapidly towards Hurst. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe...
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the...
Garland
YACHT TOWED IN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 3.6 p.m. on 2 ist August, 1965, a yacht was seen burning flares south of the life-boat house. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.20 in a south-westerly gale and a very rough sea. The tide...
Good Tidings
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 8.20 a.m. on 26th September, 1965, a report was received that the m.f.v. Good Tidings of Lerwick was leaking five miles east of Fraserburgh. At 8.35 the life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station...
Angela May
WORSENING WEATHER Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.50 a.m. on 4th March, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the coble Angela May of Filey was fishing six to eight miles east of Brigg buoy in deteriorating weather. The lifeboat The ha &...
The Liberian Motor-Vessel Brother George
LIBERIAN VESSEL Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 a.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground opposite Brook coastguard lookout. There was a near gale from the south-east with a rough sea,...
Maria Dolores
FISHERMAN WAVED At 10.25 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Maria Dolores, which had a crew of three, appeared to need help off Saltscar and that one of the fishermen was waving. At...
A Catamaran
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.10 on ryth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized two miles south-east of the life-boathouse. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 3.16 in a south-westerly wind...
None (4)
Brighton and Shoreham Harbour: Early in the evening of September 15, 1983, when a force 8 gale, gusting to strong gale, force 9, was blowing from the south west and the sea was very rough, a swimmer was reported in difficulties between...