LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Ventures III
Swanage, Dorset. At forty-five minutes past midnight on 29th July, 1965, a white flashing light was observed half a mile offPeverel Point. At 1.17 a.m.
the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a gale blowing from the...
H.M.S. Plover
Newcastle, Co. Down. H.M.S. Plover, visiting Newcastle, was due to sail early on the fth August, 1965, for the Clyde.
However, her commanding officer and forty ratings were stranded ashore as the liberty boat had grounded...
Dowssabell
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 10.52 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coxswain superintendent was notified by the coastguard that a small boat had broken down one and a half miles northeast of the Outer Binks buoy. There was a near gale from the...
Fishing Vessels
Cromarty, Ross and Cromarty.
At 9.4 a.m. on 28th October, 1965, a small fishing boat was reported in trouble off Dunrobin Castle, Golspie. The lifeboat Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will proceeded at 9.22 in a violent...
Betty Sheader and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At noon on ist November, 1965, the weather was rapidly deteriorating and two open cobles were still at sea, so the life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a...
Sugar Creek
POUNDING AGAINST PIER Dover, Kent. At 7.20 a.m. on 2gth November, 1965, the owner of the yacht Sugar Creek informed the life-boat mechanic that the yacht, from which he had just swum, had broken loose from her moorings in the inner harbour...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.32 a.m. on 23rd November, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an aircraft had come down in the sea in the St. Bride's bay area and her crew of two had baled out. The life-boat Joseph Soar...
A Fishing Boat
PAID EXPENSES At 4 p.m. on ist January, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that an unmanned fishing boat had broken away from her moorings and was drifting up the inner Tralee Bay. At the request of her owner, who promised to...
Northern Star
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 12.30 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, the coxswain, knowing that there was a fishing coble at sea and realizing that the weather was getting worse, had investigated and had decided to launch the life-boat Friendly...
The Lynn-Well Lightvessel
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 9 a.m. on 23rd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man was aboard the Lynn- Well lightvessel, and as he could not be lifted by helicopter, the services of the life-boat...