LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
La Corbieri
Salcombe, Devon. — Late on the night of the 7th of August, 1952, a report was received that flares had been seen, and at 11.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched, with the honorary secretary, Commander A. C. Roberts, on...
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Wicklow.—At 5.5. on the evening of the 7th of September, 1952, the Wick- low Head lightkeeper telephoned that a boy had fallen over a cliff a quarter of a mile north of Wicklow Head. At 5.20 the life-boat Lady Kylsant, with the ex-second...
Catherine
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. —• At 6.30 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1950, the life-boat Annie BlancheSmithhad just left her moorings with five of the life-boat crew aboard (she was going on to a slipway for cleaning), when a small...
Dinah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.10 on the night of the 26th of July, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a vessel was signalling for help with a torch one mile to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was...
The Hartlepool Yacht Kittiwake
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1949, the life-boat Louisa Polden was launched for exercise in a west-north- west wind, with a swell, and saw the Hartlepool yacht Kittiwake passing, bound for Whitby...
Susan Vittery (1)
Roulare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 10.59 on the night of the 21st of Septem- ber, 1949, the life-boat coxswain saw a vessel in the Bay firing red flares and rockets. At 11.12 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings in a very...
Alice
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 20th of September, 1954, a man reported that a rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor was in difficulties near Lowland Point. At 11.5 the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched...
The S.S. Fulham IV
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 16th of November, 1955, Lloyds' agent reported that the S.S. Fulham IV, of London, was mak- ing for Gorleston with a sick man, and asked if lie could be...
A Boat
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 7.5 on the evening of the 28th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with two people on board had been seen burning flares about a mile south of Arnish...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
PATIENT ON LIGHTVESSEL At 10.37 a-m- on 2^th August, 1964, a superintendent of Trinity House told the coxswain superintendent that a sick man on board Dowsing lightvessel needed urgent medical attention and requested the use of the life-boat...