LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Radio Caroline
HAD WOUNDED HAND At 2.42 p.m. on 26th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Caroline, a wireless transmitting station 3J miles off Ramsey, had a deep wound on his right hand and needed...
Fishing Boats
TROUBLE ON THE BAR At 10.50 a.m. on 2yth January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that one of the fishing fleet had encountered a heavy swell on the harbour bar when returning from the fishing grounds. As the weather was...
Silver Spray
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 12.14 P-mon i3th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard an open motor boat situated at Ness of Sound was trying to attract attention. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth was...
Carol
At 6.45 a.m. on 10th May, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was firing flares under the cliff off Pett. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.53 in a strong south westerly breeze and a very...
Bavaria
Hastings, Sussex - At 9.30 a.m. on 20th September, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the crew of three aboard a dredger west of St. Leonards wished to be taken off in view of the deteriorating weather conditions....
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Galway Bay - At 4.10 a.m. on 6th November, 1968, it was learnt that there was a seriously ill man on Inishmaan island. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, with a doctor on board, slipped her moorings at 5.10. There was a strong east north...
Scaldis
Torbay, South Devon - At 10.45 p.m.
on 23rd November, 1969, information was received that the m.f.v.
Scaldis was in difficulties in Lyme bay. At 11.10 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
MAN TAKEN OFF LIGHTVESSEL IN NEAR GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, At 8.30 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1962, the assistant inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that the mother of a seaman on board the Blackwater...
Sea Pegasus
MOTOR LAUNCH TAKEN IN TOW Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 31st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had broken down and was drifting out to sea a mile east-by-south of Penmon...
E286
HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...