LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mother's Joy
Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 10.50 on the morning of the 12th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Amble life-boat was on service searching for the fishing coble Mother's Joy but that she had not managed...
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Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Margaret Jane
ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad because of heavy seas and the state of the tide. As the local fishing boat Margaret Jane was...
Gien Mie
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...
An Aircraft
Humber, Yorkshire. At 6.11 on the evening of the 16th of January, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard told the cox- swain superintendent that a local resident had heard an aircraft crash into the sea about four hundred yards from the old...
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BOY WAS TRAPPED At 8.50 p.m. on roth September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was trapped 60 feet up the cliffs near Heddons Mouth. It was high water with a smooth sea and a gentle westerly breeze. At 9.12 the...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Waratah
FIREMEN HELPED At 7.35 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, while the life-boat coxswain was fishing at sea, he saw the converted ship's lifeboat Waratah burning red flares just south of Peninnis Head. He immediately gave help and succeeded in...
Pirouttie
YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...
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HORSES IN WATER The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At ip.m.on i8thOctober, 1964, the coxswain of the life-boat was told that two horses had entered the sea at Southend, The Mumbles, and were swimming away from land. Several local boats tried to...
Fen
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1958, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a small Dutch coaster was aground on Saltscar Rocks. At 6.5 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate...