LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dredger William All Press
Hastings, Sussex - At 12.43 p.m. on 10th October, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that six men aboard the dredger William All Press were in danger and the assistance of the life-boat was requested to take them off. At 12.57 the...
Kate & Violet
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 10.52 a.m.
on 5th November, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coble Kate & Violet had broken down one mile east of the coastguard station. At 11.15 the life-boat...
Thistle
Buckie, Banffshire - At 3.35 p.m. on 14th December, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties four to five miles north east of Buckie. The life-boat Laura Moncur slipped her moorings at 3.45 in a south south...
Tango
Hastings, Sussex - At 6 p.m. on 13th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported south east of the life-boat station. At 6.9 the life-boat Fairlight was launched. The tide was flooding. The...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a boat was being blown off shore one mile east of the life- boathouse. At 12.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...
A Motor Cruiser
TOWED TO GORLESTON Culler-coats, Northumberland. At 7.15 p.m. on lyth November, 1963, a message was received from the coastguard by the new Cullercoats life-boat, the Sir James Knott, whilst on passage to her station from Cowes, Isle of...
Fagotin II
FRENCH YACHT DISMASTED Bembridge, Isle of Wight. A French yacht was seen to be in difficulties with a broken mast two miles north west of the Nab Tower at 8.51 p.m. on 9th July, 1965. She had anchored near the Dean Tail buoy. The life-boat...
Tamar
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 8.18 p.m.
on i2th August, 1965, the police said that a small yacht, Tamar, required assistance off Swanpool Beach. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
A Dinghy (1)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.54 a.m. on i8th April, 1966, while the IRB was being exercised with the district inspector on board, the crew were informed that a dinghy with four youths on board was in difficulties 100 yards off shore from...
Two Fishing Vessels
COXSWAIN ESCORTED Holy Island, Northumberland. At 9.45 a.m. on 26th March, 1964, the second coxswain became anxious about two fishing vessels which were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The coxswain was on board one of them. There...