LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welsh Lady
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 6.50 p.m. on 22nd June, 1968, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Welsh Lady with five people on board was in difficulties one and a half miles north of Barmouth. The life-boat The Chieftain was...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 5.50 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard reported that two youths were cut off by the tide at Selwick bay. At 6.20 the life-boat Grace Darling, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a moderate...
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire - At 5.25 p.m. on 26th October, 1969, the coastguard reported that a rock climber was stranded on the cliffs just south of Buchanness lighthouse.
At 6.24 the life-boat James Mariska Joicey was...
The Observer
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Shoreline
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The Sailing Boat Gladys
Moelfre, Angelsey. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a sailing boat had overturned in Red Wharf Bay. At 2.30 the life- boat Watkin Williams was launched in a choppy sea....
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen had been badly...
Two Sailing Boats
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1958, the coastguard at Mumbles told the honorary secretary that two sailing boats had capsized between Ferryside and Llanstephan. At 2.40 the life- boat Caroline...
Eutarte
Plymouth, Devon. At 11.27 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat appeared to have engine trouble two miles west- north-west of Queener Point. At 11.47 the life-boat...
Breadwinner
Hastings, Sussex. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 13th of October, 1958, the honorary secretary asked the coastguard for information about three fishing vessels which had gone to the fishing grounds the previous evening, for the...