LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DINGHY NOT IN DIFFICULTY Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 2.39 p.m.

on Sunday the 29th September, 1963, the honorary secretary's wife received a telephone message from the Orlock coastguard that they had been told by the Bangor...

SAILING FAMILY RESCUED Dover, Kent. At 5.34 p.m. on Sunday the 29th September, 1963, a message was received that a yacht was in difficulties and was trying to make the harbour in a fresh to strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...

— On the night of the 7th April the life-boat coxswain brought from St. Martin's, in his own boat, a girl who was suffering from appendicitis, and her doctor.

It was then decided that the girl must be sent to the...

Early on the morning of the 12th October the motor yacht Bunts, bound from Scapa for London, with a crew of three, broke down about eight miles S.S.E. of Scurdy- ness. She had no sails on board and was helpless. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...

In spite of bad weather, the local motor fishing vessel Provider put to sea early on the morning of the 21st November. The sea was very rough, a lot of fresh water was running down the harbour, and the entrance was very dangerous. It was...

Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 3 P.M. on the 9th January, during a whole W.N.W.

gale, with a very rough sea, the s.s.

Co-operator, of Fenit, broke her moorings.

She drifted towards dangerous rocks...

Holy Island, Northumberland.—On the 21st January the North Sunderland honorary secretary asked, through the coastguard, for the motor life-boat Milburn to go to the help of twelve North Sunderland motor fishing cobles which had been caught...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall. — On the afternoon of the 10th February the ketch Albatros, of Brest, which was weatherbound in Whitesand Bay, hoisted a distress signal. She carried a crew of four and a dog, and was bound with a cargo of coal from...