LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Miller
.—At 11.30 A.M.
on the 3rd November a messenger from the coastguard reported that a motor boat was in difficulties near South East Newcome Buoy. Another boat had had her in tow, but the line had parted. A moderate S.S.E....
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Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could...
Silver Night (1)
Douglas, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At eight o'clock in the morn- ing of the 5th of September, 1951, the Douglas police reported to the Douglas life-boat station that the local fishing coble Silver Night was on the rocks at Port...
Pilot Me
TWICE IN TWO DAYS Whitby, Yorkshire.—, Shortly before mid-day on the 14th of November, 1947, the owner of the local fishing vessel Pilot Me reported that he had been told by wireless that her engine had failed. He had some new bolts being-...
Dolphin
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 7.58 on the evening of the 26th of July, 1955, the coxswain was told that a cabin cruiser was close under Porth- dinllaen Point, and that her crew were waving frantically. Twelve minutes later the...
Gwen
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 11.27 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the Sunderland coast- guard telephoned that the Souter light- house had reported that a small boat could be seen drifting off Souter...
Kingfisher, Maureen and Good Cheer
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of April, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing, with squalls of sleet, and heavy seas were breaking across the bay and harbour entrance.
Three local cobles, Kingfisher,...
Baptised at Sea
In December Sally Jane, the third child of Mr. Anthony Warnock, the mechanic of the Seaham life-boat, and Mrs. Kathleen Warnock, was baptised aboard the local life-boat.
With Coxswain Arthur Farrington at the wheel, Mr....
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Ailsa
Girvan, Ayrshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 2nd of July, 1958, the motor mechanic, who was on board the life-boat at her moorings, intercepted a radio-telephone message passed between the Ailsa Craig lighthouse keeper and Portpatrick...
Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...