LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Arbroath, Angus - At 1.33 p.m. oa 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Evening Star was lying off the harbour. At 1.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the...

At 11.1 a.m. on 3rd August, 1966, a yacht was reported to be making little headway in very heavy seas in Rye bay.

The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 11.17, three hours after low water, in astrong south westerly gale...

Whitby, Yorkshire - At 7.42 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1966, it was reported that the sloop Kalispera had left Scarborough at 1.15 p.m. bound for Whitby and was overdue. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.20 in a moderate to strong...

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 4.49 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a message was received that a yacht was in distress and burning flares. At 5.5 the life-boat St. Albans was launched in a fresh south south westerly wind and a rough...

Filey, Yorkshire - At 8.45 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, nine cobles were reported at sea and there was a distinct possibility of conditions worsening when the tide flooded. By 9.45 conditions had deteriorated considerably and the life-boat...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.25 a.m. on 26th March, 1967, the yacht Wombat, lying a mile and a half south south east of Portland breakwater light, reported to Niton radio that she was taking in water and had run out of fuel. There was a gale from...

Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.31 a.m. on 3rd November, 1968, the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in Sandwich bay at the entrance to the river Stour. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 7.40 in a southerly gale...

Poole: Coxswain Frank Ide at the wheel of Poole's new 33ft Brede, Inner Wheel. The autumn journal reported services by Exmouth's new Brede while on trials and on passage to station. While on a familiarisation run last September, even... - View image in PDF