LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A German Trawler
The following account of a service by the Helvick Head, Co. Waterford, life- boat on the 17th of December, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the March, 1960, number of the Life- boat.
At 5.30 in the evening the...
The French Fishing Boat Claudie Giselle
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.34 p.m. on 18th February, 1964, Jersey radio informed the honorary secretary that a radio telephone message had been intercepted stating that the French fishing boat Claudie Giselle was in distress and that her crew...
The Life-Boat from Roulet Abosse
DRIFTING LIFE-BOAT St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.35 a-m- °n ist February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen about 400 yards off Gur- nards Head. There was a strong breeze from the...
Almeria
SHEERING BADLY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.20 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the assistant secretary asked the second coxswain, in the absence of the coxswain, to launch the life-boat The Lilly Wainwright to go to the assistance of a motor...
A Sloop
HELICOPTER TOO Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.1 a.m.
on 15th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a police report had been received stating two flares had been seen on the seaward side of...
Bonheur
YACHT'S BAD LUCK Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 12.1 p.m. on iyth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored in Mullion cove in a strong south-south-westerly gale. The sea was very rough with a...
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SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...
Nimble Wisbee
TRIMARAN SAVED Dover, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on loth April, 1965, a resident at Folkestone informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Folkestone. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 4.55 in a strong...
Welsh Lady III and Sultan
STEERING CABLE PARTED Rhyl, Flintshire. On 29th May, 1965, the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall had launched for a special exercise with a helicopter when the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Welsh Lady HI spoke to the life-boat's...
Sulaire
Sheringham, Norfolk. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht heading for Sheringham appeared to be in distress in weather which was rapidly deteriorat- ing. There was...