LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nyanza
ST. AGNES, ISLES OF SCILLY.—Signals having been fired by the Bishop Bock Lighthouse, on the 26th May, the Lifeboat James and Caroline was launched at 12.15 p.m., and found the lugger Nyanza, of Penzance, engaged in the mackerel fishery, at...
Gay Star, of Castletown
Margate, Kent - At 4.43 p.m. on 26th September, 1967, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in difficulties with a fouled propeller six miles north east of the North Foreland lighthouse. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service...
Switzerland, of Panama
At 7.44 p.m. on 16th October, 1969, it was learnt that a stewardess on board a vessel in Bull anchorage required immediate medical attention for suspected appendicitis. The life-boat City of Bradford HI, with a doctor on board, was launched...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a local fishing boat was overdue from the fishing grounds north of Arranmore. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake put out at...
Siobhan
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the morning of the 13th of September, 1959, the radio station at Malin Head informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in distress sixteen miles eact of Tory Island. At 2.30...
Saint Iluce
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.9 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident of Seaview had reported seeing a yacht apparently in distress off Seaview. At 6.15, when the tide...
None (21)
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 8.8. p.m. on loth August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that two boys had been cut off by the tide south of Clarach. At 9.12 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle south-westerly breeze and...
Droomboot
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 7.10 a.m. on 22nd August, 1966, a yacht off Dunwich required assistance. There was a gale from the north east with a rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary...
Anita Maree
Torbay, Devon. At 5.35 p.m. on Friday, 23rd July 1965, the Brixham coastguard told the honorary secretary that a visitor had telephoned that two people were drifting out to sea in a small boat a mile off Orestone Rock. At 5.55 the life-boat...
Britannia
BOAT AND FIVE TOWED TO SAFETY Hastings, Sussex. At 8.15 on the evening of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor boat Britannia appeared to be having engine trouble three-quarters of a mile...