LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Embrace
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Embrace of Hartlepool had fouled her propeller two miles north of the Heugh and was...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received an urgent message from the doctor at Gaveedore that the resident nurse on Tory Island had fallen while trying to...
Two Boats
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the police had reported two small boats in difficulties on the rocks off Dunbar old bathing pool. A strong...
The Launch Devotion
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 14th July, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a launch engaged for work on a pipe-line two miles north of Hartlepool was in difficulties and needed help. At one o'clock...
Rake's Retreat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1961, a cabin cruiser was seen to have tried unsuccessfully to pick up a moor- ing buoy at Friar's Bay, Beaumaris. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a very...
Paul Westers
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 12.35 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961 ,the coastguard informed the honor- ary secretary that a pilot boat was stand- ing by the motor vessel Paul Westers of Groningen, which had engine trouble, off the...
Laura
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.32 on the morning of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a woman living in Ballywater that a boat was said to have disappeared near Buckie Pots off Burial Island...
A Dredger and a Hopper
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the morning of the 29th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dredger and a hopper had broken from their moorings off Workington and were drifting ashore. The life-boat Man-...
Austerity
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.3 on the evening of the 26th December, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Austerity of London had wirelessed that one of her crew was injured and that she wished to land him...
Candourity
STANDING BY MOTOR VESSEL IN GALE Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 6.40 on the evening of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the master of the motor vessel Candourity of London had asked for the life-boat to stand...