LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Star
THREE MEN RESCUED Filey, Yorkshire. At 1.47 p.m. on I3th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had broken down four and a half miles off Gristhorpe and had fired three distress flares. The life-boat...
Premier
ENGINES HAD STOPPED As the fishing coble Premier was known to be at sea and the weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled at 7.30 a.m. on loth November, 1963. At 9.10 the coastguard informed the honorary...
Florence
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 8.30 a.m. on 2nd December, 1963, the coxswain obtained permission from the honorary secretary to launch the lifeboat to escort the local fishing coble Florence, because of deteriorating weather.
There...
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TAKEN TO DOCKS Galway Bay. Shortly before 9 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that a man in Kilronan had been seriously injured in a fall and required immediate hospital treatment.
Owing to the...
A Boat (1)
BOAT DRIFTING Clogher Head, Co. Louth. The lifeboat George and Caroline Ermen had been at sea during the afternoon of 26th June, 1965, escorting boats attending the Boyne Yacht Club regatta and had just returned to her station when a message...
Canopus
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.
There was a strong...
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
A Cabin Cruiser
FLASHING LIGHT SEEN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.40 p.m. on 26th September 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the coaster Mary Birch had reported at 11.30 a.m. seeing a small flashing light north-west of Blacktail...
Taka Maru
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 11.19 a.m. on 3ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht anchored off Rhyl had fired a red flare. The life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a strong north-westerly wind and...
The British Tanker Esso Canterbury
Valentia, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m. on 2nd March, 1966, the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the British tanker Esso Canterbury and that her estimated time of...