LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Enterprise
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Stornoway, Hebrides. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Enterprise of Stornoway had broken down one mile off...
A Trawler
Arranmore, Donegal - At 1 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a trawler which had broken down was drifting towards the rocks east of Owey island. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 1.40 in a...
A Dinghy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.20 p.m. on 12th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties about half a mile north of the harbour.
The...
Harvest Queen
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At eleven o'clock on the night of the 14th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the local fishing boat Harvest Queen had broken down and was in need of help. At 11.20...
Margaret and James
COBLE IN DANGER At 9.29 p.m. on 28th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that two red flares had been observed dose inshore near Speeton look-out. There was a slight sea and it was one hour after low water.
At...
A Sailing Dinghy (8)
Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 2.32 p.m.
on igth July, 1964, the coastguard heard that a sailing dinghy with three people on board had capsized one mile north-east of Skegness pier. At 2.38 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Children's Friend
DRIFTING VESSEL At 2.31 p.m. on gth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was drifting in a moderate sea and a fresh south-easterly breeze off the Point of Ayre. The...
The Gorton Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....
Two Fishing Boats
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on 3oth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two small fishing boats which had put out in fine weather had got into difficulties when the weather suddenly became worse. The life-boat...
El Toro
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.35 a.m. on 22nd June, 1965, two members of the inshore rescue boat crew saw the motor cruiser El Toro in difficulties with engine failure one mile south-south-east of St Ives head. At 10.38 the inshore rescue boat...