LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.33 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had been seen firing red flares near Arranman's Barrels buoy...

INJURED MAN LANDED FROM GERMAN TRAWLER Wick, Caithness-shire. At 10.45 p.m.

on Tuesday the 13th of August, 1963, the Wick coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German trawler Hansaet of Hamburg had broken down...

CALLS BY CRUISER Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.48 p.m.

on 27th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a flashing light and calls for help had been seen and heard 400 yards off No. 4 Martello Tower by...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 12th of September, 1954, a man at Sark reported that the motor yacht Dorian had left Sark, with six people on board, for Guernsey at six o'clock that evening and ought to have...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the Stornoway coast- guard telephoned that a message had been received from the Oban radio station that the steam trawler Moni- mia, of Fleetwood,...

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 21st of May, 1955, the principal keeper of the Cantick Head lighthouse reported that the local motor vawl Shirma, laden with lobster pots and carrying a crew of two, had broken down. He later...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.9 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1955, the coastguard told the second cox- swain that a yacht was in difficulties south of Pakefield church, two miles south-south-west of the coastguard station. Eight minutes...

Aberdeen.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 6th of August, 1955, the coast- guard telephoned that a small boat, with a crew of four, appeared to be in difficulty and drifting southwards two and a half miles south-east of Findon Ness. At four...