LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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TOW FOR YACHT WITH SIX ABOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1962, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the edge of the Burbo bank and...
Two Rubber Dinghies
RESCUE OF YOUTHS IN DINGHIES New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 10.12 on the morning of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies were drifting out to sea half a mile off Aberayron. At 10.40 the life-boat St. Albans...
A Yacht (1)
CREW TAKEN OFF DISMASTED YACHT Redcar, Yorkshire. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties a mile and a half northeast of Saltscar buoy....
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WOMAN BROUGHT TO MAINLAND FOR EMERGENCY OPERATION Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 13th May, 1963, the local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a woman, who was dangerously ill, from Aran to the...
Six Sailing Dinghies
LIFE-BOAT'S FORTUNATE SOCIAL APPEARANCE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was attending the Clacton-on-Sea sailing club regatta on Sunday the 25th August, 1963. She left the slipway at 11.50 a.m. and lay off the...
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
Varina
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER At 12.55 p.m. on igth December, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser off the the Quern was signalling for help. There was a fresh north-north-westerly breeze with a rough sea...
Helen
ESCORT FOR TANKER At 3.45 a.m. on I2th November, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red rocket and searchlight had been seen from a vessel in the Crosby channel.
At four o'clock the life-boat White...
The S.S. Basildon
ESCORTED VESSELS Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 7.45 p.m.
on 28th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was notified by a shipping agency that the s.s. Basildon of London had broken down six miles south of...
The Danish Motor Vessel Northwind
DANISH SHIP HELPED At 7.33 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a coaster with a deck cargo two and a half miles south-south-west of Ventnor appeared to have broken down, so at 7.45 the lifeboat Jesse Lumb was launched....