LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Charles H. Merz
ESCORT AFTER MOTOR VESSEL IS REFLOATED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.30 on the morning of the 31st May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a vessel was reported to have run ashore at the north pier at the entrance to the River...
Five Fishing Boats and Bairn's Pride
SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....
Oranmore
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 8.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1963, Valentia Radio told the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the m.v. Oranmore had been seriously injured following a collision between the m.v. Oranmore and the m.v.
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Notes of the Quarter
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
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The Motor Fishing Vessels Snowdrop and Yvonne Risager
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 10.15 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop of Inverness was disabled off the Bass Rock, six miles east of...
A Canberra Aircraft
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
Ceresio
Redcar, Yorkshire. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 27th of December, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been informed at his home by a passer-by that a vessel was aground off...
Progress, Prosperity, Pilot Me, Lead Us, Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat, who is today a boathouse attendant, told the honorary secretary that while attending his boats in the upper harbour he had...
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Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.50 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1959, the police at Hoylake told the coxswain that two young men who had gone swimming from Hilbre Island at 4.15 had not returned to the beach. At 6.35 the life- boat Oldham IV...
Kestrel
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.16 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in distress a quarter of a mile east of Mersea Island. At 3.25 the life-boat Sir Godfrey...