LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier
ENGINES HAD STOPPED As the fishing coble Premier was known to be at sea and the weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating the life-boat crew assembled at 7.30 a.m. on loth November, 1963. At 9.10 the coastguard informed the honorary...
Selina
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4.10 p.m. on yth June, 1965, the police notified the honorary secretary that a yacht off Sandsend was signalling and needed help, so at 4.30 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched. There was a light southeasterly...
Liz
ENGINE FAILURE Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 9.15 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a distress signal had been observed half-a-mile off shore at Mablethorpe. At 9.45 the lifeboat...
A Boat (1)
BOAT DRIFTING Clogher Head, Co. Louth. The lifeboat George and Caroline Ermen had been at sea during the afternoon of 26th June, 1965, escorting boats attending the Boyne Yacht Club regatta and had just returned to her station when a message...
Canopus
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.
There was a strong...
Calypso
ENGINE TROUBLE Clovelly, Devon. At 7.15 p.m. on i4th July, 1965, the police reported that a boat had broken down one mile off shore from Higher Sharpnose, about eight miles south of Hartland Point. The life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Spectre and Nola
RED FLARES At 10.52 a.m. on loth August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a 45-foot boat towing a yacht had fired three or four red flares 250 yards off Elma Beach.
The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at ii a.m. in a...
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Pearl
EXHAUSTED BY ROWING Whitehills, Banffshire. At 1.55 a.m.
on 3rd August, 1965, the police reported that a flare had been seen off Banff. The life-boat Helen Wycherley launched at 2.15 in a moderate north-easterly breeze and...
A Cabin Cruiser
FLASHING LIGHT SEEN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.40 p.m. on 26th September 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the coaster Mary Birch had reported at 11.30 a.m. seeing a small flashing light north-west of Blacktail...