LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat
HELICOPTERS HELPED Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.46 p.m. on 2ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been reported ashore on the east side of Dodman Point. One body had been recovered but another was...
Revellin
MAYDAY CALL Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.50 a.m. on 24th April, 1965, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the Spanish fishing vessel Revellin was sending out a Mayday call. There was a moderate northwesterly breeze and a slight...
Fishing Boats (1)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 12.40 on the after- noon of the 2nd of March, 1961, when weather conditions were bad, the coast- guard and the honorary secretary dis- cussed the desirability of launching the life-boat, as nine fishing vessels were...
Venture
Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.25 p.m.
on 8th July, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in difficulties near the Chequer shoal. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched in a strong...
A Dinghy (17)
Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty - At 10.52 a.m. on 8th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy and a boy were missing from Portmahamack. The lifeboat Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will slipped her moorings at 11.24...
Cera
At 8 a.m. on I4th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser, the Cera, was making heavy weather on passage from Calais to Ramsgate. Later the South Goodwin lighrvessel reported that the cruiser had...
Nymfea
SHIPS IN COLLISION Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.5 a.m. on 15th July, 1965, a collision was reported to have occurred ten miles south-by-east of Beachy Head. One of the vessels was sinking. At 1.20 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a...
A Dinghy (3)
DINGHY IN DANGER At 3.30 p.m. on i8th August, 1965, as soon as the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin reached the pier from the previous service, a visitor reported to the motor mechanic that a dinghy was in difficulties in Loch Nevis. The...
Troon:
Troon: Monday February 27, 1984, at 1135, Troon's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Connel Elizabeth Cargill, under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson, left her mooring after reports that the tug Garnock had been damaged by an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aslaug
YACHT TAKEN EM TOW IN GALE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.40 on the evening of the 23rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a quarter of a mile south-southeast of Clacton pier. The...