LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Ranger

TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT WITH THREE ABOARD Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.50 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at Carn Du. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at nine o'clock in a moderate south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was high water. The life-boat arrived at Lamorna and was informed by Landsend radio that the boat had been towed to the quay. The life-boat then towed the motor boat Ranger, which had three men on board, to Newlyn, arriving at 10.10. Because of the heavy swell at the slipway the lifeboat was not rehoused until next morning. It was learnt later that a man had put out in his own small boat to tow the Ranger from Carn Du to Lamorna to prevent her from going on to the rocks, as the Ranger had no anchor or oars on board..