LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pandora
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.20 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been reported about five miles west of Aberaeron.
The life-boat St. Albans was launched at 9.55...
Girl Mina
Life-boat 70-002 at Longhope, Orkney - At 2.18 p.m. on 22nd March, 1969, while life-boat 70-002 was at Longhope and her crew were preparing to go ashore to attend the funeral of the crew of the Longhope life-boat, the coastguard reported to...
Nanyao
Dover, Kent. At 6.59 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift ten miles south-west of Dover. When the life- boat Southern Africa put out at 7.30 there was a...
Jaqueline Roberta
Dungeness, Kent. At 11.50 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the engine of the fishing boat Jaque- line Roberta had broken down three miles south-west of Dungeness and that she had asked...
Rake's Retreat
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd August, 1961, a cabin cruiser was seen to have tried unsuccessfully to pick up a moor- ing buoy at Friar's Bay, Beaumaris. A south-westerly gale was blowing with a very...
Cramarye
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.51 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961, the mechanic informed the coastguard that a yacht had dragged her anchors and drifted down on to the pier. The yacht had five men on board. At 6.30 the life-boat Sir...
Girl Doris
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.38 on the evening of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Girl Doris had broken down about six miles east-north-east of St. Mary's lighthouse and had...
Laura
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.32 on the morning of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a woman living in Ballywater that a boat was said to have disappeared near Buckie Pots off Burial Island...
The Danish Motor Vessel Jens Emil
TOWLINE PASSED TO DANISH MOTOR VESSEL Wick, Caithness-shire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish motor vessel Jens Emil had broken down four miles east of Wick. The...
A Motor Boat
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...