LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CLIFF CLIMBER FELL Swanage, Dorset. At i.i p.m. on 26th October, 1965, the life-boat's assistance was requested as a youth had fallen down the cliff two hundred yards west of Anvil Point. The life-boat R.L.P.
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Maid Marion
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.18 p.m. on 6th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with four men on board was overdue. At 9.45 the life-boat Edian Courtauld proceeded to search for the fishing...
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Swanage, Dorset - At 6.30 p.m. on 6th October, 1969, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a man was trapped on the face of the cliff at Ballard. The crew assembled in case of need. A police rescue party joined the C.R.E. Company...
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INJURED YOUTH PICKED UP BY BOARDING BOAT Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a young man had fallen over the cliffs two miles south of...
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...
Gratitude and Forseti
Dover, Kent. At 2.15 on the after- noon of the 12th of December, 1958, a message was received from the eastern arm signal station that the trawler Gratitude, which was towing another trawler, the Forseti, to Ramsgate, had broken down with...
Flevo
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.32 on the morning of the 8th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Flevo of Groningen had run aground near Laver Point east of St. Ives Bay. The life- boat Edgar,...
Halcyon and El Alamein
Stromness, Orkney.—At 7.42 on the evening of the 16th of July, 1056, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing- boat Halcyon, of Wick, had gone ashore on Black Craig Rock in Hoy Sound. At 7.55 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
Gazelle
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1957, the piermaster telephoned to say that a motor cruiser was in a very dangerous position off the end of Brean Down and needed help. The life-boat Frank and...
Pinda
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 8.22 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Pinda had left Mullion at three o'clock to go on a fishing trip between Mullion and Penzance. There were three people,...