LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catrina
TOW FOR CATAMARAN IN NEAR GALE Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 2.3 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficulties northnorth- east of Fishguard. The...
Unitas
DUTCH VESSEL TOWED OFF ROCKS IN GALE Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th December, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Unitas of Groningen was in difficulties at Kincasslagh Bay. She had...
Livanita (1)
SECOND SERVICE TO NORWEGIAN MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.15 on the morning of the 27th February, 1963, the port medical officer telephoned to say that the motor vessel Livanita of Grimstad, which had a sick man on board, was...
Juffertie
TOW FOR YACHT WITH INJURED MAN ABOARD St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.3 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1963, a message was received by radiotelephone from the yacht Juffertie that her master had cut his head and needed help. At 7.40 the...
A Dinghy (1)
FOUR PEOPLE SAVED BY SPEEDBOAT Swanage, Dorset. At 5.53 on the afternoon of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Swanage coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with four people on board appeared to be in difficulties half a...
Eileen
ESCORTED TO SAFETY At 8.15 a.m. on loth November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Eileen had not returned to the harbour since leaving at two o'clock the previous afternoon. In view of the worsening...
Wildgoose
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was anchored in heavy seas in Pevensey Bay and her crew appeared to be in...
Bridge
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was aground on the Barrow Sands. A helicopter took off and at 8.55 the life-boat Greater London II...
A Motor Boat
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was stranded on a sandbank a mile and three quarters south-west of...
May Fly
Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was unable to make Ramsgate harbour and was dragging her anchor and in danger of going ashore. Six minutes...