LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
P.H. 90
FISHING BOAT OVERDUE At 7.36 a.m. on 22nd August, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat's mechanic that a fishing boat with one person on board was reported overdue. At 9.33 this report was confirmed and both the Royal Air Force and...
Sea Breezes
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 11.45 a.m. on 27th August, 1964, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a small skiff was in difficulties i% miles north-west of St. Ives Head. At 11.50 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle...
Anne
FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel...
A Motor Boat
Plymouth, South Devon. At 1.5 a.m. on 3ist May, 1965, the coastguard informed the life-boat's motor mechanic that a small motor boat about two miles off the Mewstone appeared to be making no progress. There was a fresh northerly breeze...
Marea
Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 8.55 a.m. on 25th July, 1965, the St. Just coastguard reported a motor yacht drifting about one mile to the north of Cape Cornwall. She was in no immediate danger, but at 9.35 the coastguard saw that she had hoisted...
Sea Ventures III
Swanage, Dorset. At forty-five minutes past midnight on 29th July, 1965, a white flashing light was observed half a mile offPeverel Point. At 1.17 a.m.
the life-boat R.L.P. was launched. There was a gale blowing from the...
H.M.S. Plover
Newcastle, Co. Down. H.M.S. Plover, visiting Newcastle, was due to sail early on the fth August, 1965, for the Clyde.
However, her commanding officer and forty ratings were stranded ashore as the liberty boat had grounded...
Dowssabell
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 10.52 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coxswain superintendent was notified by the coastguard that a small boat had broken down one and a half miles northeast of the Outer Binks buoy. There was a near gale from the...
Betty Sheader and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At noon on ist November, 1965, the weather was rapidly deteriorating and two open cobles were still at sea, so the life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 10.32 a.m. on 23rd November, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that an aircraft had come down in the sea in the St. Bride's bay area and her crew of two had baled out. The life-boat Joseph Soar...