LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran and a Dinghy
CATAMARAN DISMASTED Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 11.53 a.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the coastguard reported that a catamaran with a crew of two had been dismasted half a mile off Winthorpe and was drifting northward.
At 12.15 p.m....
Tessa
NOT MANAGEABLE Later the same day, a number of the life-boat crew heard a radio message broadcast from the North Foreland transmitting station stating that the motor yacht Tessa was in difficulties two miles east-south-east of the East...
Mako
MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate...
Venture
Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Venture, of Folkestone, with one man aboard, was overdue from a fishing trip off Shakespeare...
A Boat
Poole, Dorset. — At 10.30 on the night of the llth of March, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a boat with two boys on board was missing and that the boys' parents were becoming anxious.
A...
Gay Star
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 2.30 a.m. on 3oth March, 1967, news was received that the fishing boat Gay Star with a crew of two was in difficulties two miles west of Bardsey Island. The life-boat Charles Henry Ashley launched...
The Cross Sands Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.29 a.m. on 14th April, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that there was a sick man on board the Cross Sands lightvessel. The lifeboat Khami with a doctor on board slipped her moorings at 2 o'...
A Storm Boat and a Dinghy
Easrney, Hampshire - At 7.2 p.m. on 19th April, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a stormboat with a number of skin divers aboard was in difficulties near the Horse Sand fort and was being driven out to sea by...
Peterborough Trader
JAN. 20TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 11.30 P.M. the life-boat watchman reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Binks. She was the motor vessel Peterborough Trader, of Wisbech, bound for the Humber. A light, variable...
Alex Van Opstal
SEPT. l5TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7.20 P . M . the coastguards telephoned that four boats were adrift near the Shambles Lightship with the crew of a Belgian steamer on board. The weather was fine. The motor life-boat...