LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 9.28 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, it was learned that a man was stranded on a rope ladder at Rough Towers Fort. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 9.52...
Cormorant
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 10.17 P-m- on 3oth June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had under observation a yacht which was making no headway. It seemed to have dropped anchor in a dangerous position close to Little...
Concord
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. At 6.15 p.m. on loth July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing 'vessel Concord had broken down'7!^ miles south-east of Gourdon. The life-boat the Edith Clouson-Thue...
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 7.10 p.m. on ist June, 1-965, a doctor on Papa Westray asked for the use of the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman to take a patient to hospital at Kirkwall. The lifeboat put out at 7.30 in a moderate northwesterly...
Coral Cluster
Anxiety was felt for the local fishing coble Coral Cluster when she was at sea in worsening weather conditions on 29th July, 1965. At 4.16 p.m. the life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched in a strong north-easterly wind, with a...
Plover
FIVE TAKEN OFF Dover, Kent. At 3 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a cabin cruiser off Cock Point was observed burning a red flare.
At 3.31 the life-boat Southern Africa put to sea. There was a strong south-westerly wind, the sea...
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Galway Bay. At n p.m. on i8th July, 1965, a child was taken by currach from Inishere to Kilronan with serious arm injuries. After examining the child the doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take the child to hospital. As the tide was...
Verconella
INJURED MAN ON TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At midnight on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary notified the coxswain that the tanker Verconella was making for Mounts Bay with a badly injured man on board.
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Eau de Vie
Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore galeThe coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives of eight people from a dismasted yacht...