LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Skiff
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1959, a man informed the coxswain that his son and a friend had put out to fish in his skiff against his advice and that he was worried about their safety...
An Open Motor Boat
Galway Bay. At ten o'clock on the night of the 29th of August, 1959, a member of the life-boat's crew saw flares being fired between Aran and the Connemara Coast. He informed the honorary secretary, and at 10.25 the life-boat Mabel...
Friedi
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.55 on the evening of the 3rd of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Friedi, of Delfzijl, had broken down two miles north-north-west of Inishowen Head. At 7.10 the...
Fame
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 17th of May, 1960, the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched one hour after high water to the help of the motor fishing vessel Fame of Lossiemouttu which was ashore on...
Golden Hope
ENGINE BREAKDOWN At 8.22 a.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the skipper of the fishing-vessel Golden Hope had radioed, asking for his vessel to be kept under observation because her engine had broken down. The...
Boy Eric
EIGHT ABOARD At 7.54 a.m. on 28th July, 1965, a small schooner was seen apparently drifting seawards from Hopes Nose with no sign of life on board. Observation was kept on the boat for another ten minutes and as she continued to drift the...
Lady Ursula
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN At 7.35 p.m. on 3ist August, 1965, the Prawle Point coastguard reported that the crew of two of a small boat half a mile south-west of Start Point were waving clothing and that the boat appeared to be drifting. At 7.46...
Ross Fortune
Aberdeen. At 3.22 p.m. on 2nd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Fortune of Grimsby was nearly aground in Aberdeen Bay and had asked for assistance. The life-boat Ramsay Dyce left at 3.44 in...
A Boat
Exmouth and Torbay, South Devon.— At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that the Devon County Constabulary had reported that two children who had gone out from Dawlish in a small boat had...
Yswith & Victor
About 8 P.M.
on the 28th January, during a very strong N.N.W. gale, signals of distress were seen from a ketch which had put into the bay for shelter and was riding heavily to her anchors. The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10...