LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Valri
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.57 a.m. on 23rd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares at Whittaker Beacon. The life-boat Isabella and Edward Irvin was launched at 6.22 in a strong westerly wind...
Kenfine, of Dover
Dover, Kent - At 1.47 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, the harbour control station informed the honorary secretary that an auxiliary motor yacht was dismasted and in difficulties about one mile and a half south of the breakwater. Her engine had...
The Tender Offshore I
At 2 p.m. on 5th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four youths in a hired rowing dinghy were missing. At 2.37 the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough...
Janorma
Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.10 p.m. on nth December, 1966, a small vessel was seen to be in distress about one and a half miles west of the pier. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30} was launched at...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 7.25 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, it was felt that deteriorating weather conditions round Newbiggin Church Point threatened the safety of 10 cobles fishing in the area. The life-boat Mary jfoicey was launched at 7...
Eglantine
JAN. 17TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 3.50 P.M. the St. Ann’s Head coastguard reported that a French schooner was in distress two miles south of the Head.
She was the Eglantine, of Treguier, bound laden...
Lou Mani
JULY 29TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 1 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Light-vessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong S.W. wind...
Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory
OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned by 6.40 P.M.,...
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 6.50 P.M. information was received that a man had been cut off by the tide on a rock half a mile from the boat house, and was in great danger. A S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was rising....