LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Karina II
Poole, Dorset - At 1.20 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Studland bay. The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings in a fresh to strong north easterly breeze...
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At 7.20 p.m. on 15th October, 1966, request was received for the life-boat to convey a patient to hospital on the mainland. At 8.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings. It was three hours before low water. The life-boat...
Marie Rose, Beatty, G.B.H., Red Herring, I'll Try and Bettsey
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 12 noon on 23rd April, 1967, when the life-boat Louise Stephens was at sea the coxswain noticed that conditions on the bar would be likely tocause difficulties for seven small boats fishing in the...
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As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...
Bookshelf
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of April, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a seriously injured man from the Skellig's Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' tender Valonia had already made...
Morning Star
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Worthing beach inspector had reported a small yacht apparently in trouble off Splash Point, Lancing.
The...
Pathfinder
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 2.17 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been seen six miles south- south-west of Portpatrick. At 2.30 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the...
Buena Fortuna
ESCORT FOR COBLE IN ROUGH SEA Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th December, 1962, the harbour master informed the coxswain that a local fishing coble, Buena Fortuna, appeared to be in difficulties off...
J.G.4.
At 3.52 p.m. on I3th July, 1967, a message was received indicating that the motor yacht J.G.4. had broken down about half a mile off Frinton and was taking in water fast. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the...