LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Girl Christian and Minehead Angler
Escort LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 0150 on Thursday October 16, 1980, that the fishing vessel Girl Christian was reported to be in difficulties four miles north of Trevose Head.<...
Festina-Lente
Yacht among rocks THE NORWEGIAN YACHT Festina-Lente reported by VHP radio at 1333 on Tuesday December 14, 1982, that her engine and steering gear had failed; she was one mile south of St Helier Harbour entrance.
The yacht...
Letters of Thanks to Skippers
FOR a service which led to the rescue of six people from the motor fishing vessel Castle Dawn, Mr. Samuel McCullough, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Be Ready, and Mr. Ernest McKee, skipper of the motor fishing vessel Ambitious, have...
Category: Services
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo (3)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
A Catamaran
One cat twice HM COASTGUARD informed Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives lifeboat station at noon on Saturday August 16, 1980, that a small catamaran being sailed singlehanded had capsized two miles east of the station. Coxswain Cocking made...
Ronleo
Engine failure in gale THE CREW OF Teesmouth lifeboat assembled at the boathouse on the afternoon of Saturday October 20, 1984, after a fishing vessel, Ronleo, had reported that she was in need of assistance, sixand a quarter miles east...
The Fraserburgh Fishing Vessel John Scott
Engine failure IN A STRONG north-north-easterly gale, force 9, and snow showers, the skipper of the Fraserburgh fishing vessel, John Scott, contacted Shetland coastguard at 1945 on Wednesday April 24, 1985 to report that his engine had...
Mystic
Eight men plucked from fishing vesselCoxswain Albert Sutherland of the Fraserburgh lifeboat City of Edinburgh has been awarded the thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on vellum following a service in which the...
Greyling
'Dismasted5 yacht found sailing after long search Crew member Alan Channell of the Poole lifeboat Inner Wheel has been sent a letter of thanks signed by the Chief of Operations following a service in which he was put aboard a yacht off...
Wyvern
Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate the crew 'on a first class service in the...