LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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STRANDED When on service at the Calf of Man on i6th April, 1966, a request was made by a party of students, who were stranded on the island owing to the weather conditions, to be taken off as they had run out of food.
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Queen of Falmouth
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 11 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had fired an orange flare about three miles south by east from Pendennis.
The life-boat Crawford and...
Captain Returns to Wreck Spot
ON 27TH OCTOBER, 1927, an Italian seaman spent the night clutching the rigging of the stricken 6,oooton s.s. habo, an Italian merchantman, which had foundered on the Scilly Rocks at the Isles of Scilly. The next morning he was snatched to...
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Gloire a St. Therese
ON BOARD FRENCH TRAWLER 10.32 p.m. on i5th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the French trawler Gloire a St.
Therese of Boulogne had on board an injured man needing hospital treatment, and owing to...
Snuffbox
TWO ON BOARD YACHT At 10.7 p.m. on I3th June, 1964, the coxswain told the coastguard that as a yacht had run aground near St. Helen's Fort and had been firing flares he had decided to launch. At 10.18 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary...
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DOCTOR TAKEN Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 12.45 P-mon 12 th April, 1964, the honorary medical adviser asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Colonsay at 2 p.m. to attend the resident doctor there.
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New Quay Centenary
The centenary of the New Quay life-boat station was celebrated on 3rd July.
An open-air service was held on the pier with New Quay life-boat St. Albans moored below. The Right Rev. J. R. Richardss Bishop of St. David's,...
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Epomeo
EIGHT ABOARD YACHT Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 12.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Epomeo had engine trouble and would probably need help. At 12.30 the coastguard confirmed this,...
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At 6.45 a.m. on 10th May, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was firing flares under the cliff off Pett. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.53 in a strong south westerly breeze and a very...
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Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...