LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sgumain
YACHT TOWED IN WITH GALE IMMINENT Exmouth, Devon. At 11.30 on the night of the 25th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he had an auxiliary yacht under observation whose engine had broken down off Sidmouth beach....
Patricia
YACHT'S CREW SAVED At 12.13 P-m. on the same day the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties off Ramsgate. At 12.25 tne life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put...
Thomas Goulden, of London
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.
on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that, following an explosion aboard her, the collier Thomas Goulden of London was making for Bridlington with a...
Susmar
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.
At 2.10 the life-boat The...
The Tender Pendonna
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.47 on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that red flares had been seen near the Bull lightvessel. A strong east-south-easterly wind was blowing, and the sea...
A Boat (1)
Aith, Shetlands. At 6.55 on the even- ing of the 8th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that two men had gone to an uninhabited island earlier that day in a small boat.
As the weather had deteriorated...
Venus
Hastings, Sussex. At 11.26 on the morning of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small craft was anchored between a mile and a half and two miles south-west of Galley Hill,...
Witte-Zee
SINKING DUTCH TUG After the earlier service to the motor vessel Brother George on 23rd February, a decision was made to stand by the vessel while attempts were made to refloat her on the flood tide. There was a strong southerly breeze with a...
Amelie Suzanne
DOCTOR REQUIRED Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 8.10 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the skipper of the fishing coble Who Cares, who had just returned ashore, reported that the trawler Amelie Suzanne of Ostend was signalling for a doctor but that...
George William and Young Fisherman
CRAB BOAT AIDED Cromer, Norfolk. At 9 a.m. on 2pth June, 1964, the crab boat George William was seen by the coxswains of the two lifeboat stations to be adrift with a fouled propeller one mile south-east of Cromer.
The crab...