LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wire
Wells, Norfolk.—At ten o'clock on the evening of the 28th of May, 1956, a yacht was seen to be in difficulties north-east of Wells. At 10.30 the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched.
The sea was smooth, a moderate east-...
Maria
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 3rd of January, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned to say a woman had reported that her husband had put out in the twenty-feet motor boat Maria early that morning and had not returned...
Reliance
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1957, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel on passage from Deganwy to Fleetwood had engine trouble and was drifting near the Morecambe Bay lightveseel. She...
African Queen
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.1 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning flares near the No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. At 9.25 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Sen-ice No. 30) was launched....
Elm Grove
Buckie, Banffshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of Febru- ary, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Wick radio had received a message from the motor fishing boat Elm Grove, of Buckie, that a fisherman...
Enterprise
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat with two men on board was having considerable diffi- culty in making the shore. The life-boat...
A Dinghy (8)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 10.20 on the night of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard told the mechanic that he had received a report that a dinghy was missing off shore opposite the Redcar- Marske boundary. While the coast- guard was making...
A Sailing Boat and Dinghy
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 9.40 on the evening of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from some boys that a boat was being carried out to sea by the strong ebb tide and that the...
Cannibal
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 4.10 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Cannibal, which had broken down,was drifting with the strong flood tide and would very soon be ashore...
Border Queen
BIyth, Northumberland - At 11.45 a.m. on 24th March, 1968, thecoastguard told the honorary secretary that a coble had fired distress flares in Cambois bay about one mile north of the harbour mouth.
The life-boat Winston...