LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glencoy
COASTER ON ROCKS At 7.32 p.m. on the i6th February, 1965 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Glencoy had gone ashore and needed assistance. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbon No. 3 was launched at 8.5 in a light...
A Sailing Boat and a Rowing Boat
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.36 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dismasted sailing boat had been reported off Bramble buoy andthat her crew of two were asking for help. The...
A French Trawler
Margate, Kent. At 10.10 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, red jlares were seen one mile east of the north-east Spit buoy. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. //) launched at 10.34 in a strong gale from the west with a very rough sea....
The RNLI reserve Life-Boat Edward Z. Dresden (O.N. 707)
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 6.37 p.m. on ipth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Royal National Life-boat Institution's reserve life-boat Edward Z Dresden (O.N. 707) on passage from Workington to...
Elizabeth Ann
LEAKING YACHT TOWED TO HARBOUR Cromer, Norfolk. At 7.35 on the morning of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht anchored between East Runton and Cromer was leaking badly and needed a tow to...
Karen Maria
OCTOBER 16TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At about 5.10 A.M. the Workington coastguard reported a red flare five to six miles away in a westerly direction, and asked for the life-boat crew to stand by. A westerly gale was...
Point Girl
AUGUST 23RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 8.45 P.M. a message was received that a flare had been seen a mile S.W. of Ballycotton Light. A moderate N. wind was blowing with a slight sea. At 9 P.M. the motor life-boat Mary...
Fishing Cobles (1)
DECEMBER 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN - BY - THE - SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND. Eight cobles were out fishing, and a fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the coastguard...
S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.43 in the morning the coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Elizabeth Lysaght, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, that she was aground on Corton Sands and in need of immediate...
Pop
AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...