LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Solskin, of Oslo
Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9.45 on the night of the 22nd of March, 1957, a local Trinity House official called on the coxswain and asked if the life-boat would launch to bring ashore an injured man from the Longstone lighthouse,...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that two fishing cobles were at sea in very bad weather conditions. He had spoken to Flamborough coastguard, who had said that one of the...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 13th of June, 1960, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would go to Inishere Island and take a sick woman to Rossaveal on the mainland for hospital treatment....
U.S. Coast Guard Disaster
Five members of the United States Coast Guard lost their lives in an attempted rescue at the mouth of the Columbia River on the 12th of January, 1961, when three life-boats put out to the help of a crab boat. One of the life- boats, a...
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the night of the 9th October, 1961, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a Polish fishing vessel was aground near the old pier lighthouse.
At eleven o'clock, the...
A Dinghy (4)
LIFE-BOAT BREAKS ADRIFT AT NIGHT Lytham-StAnne's, Lancashire. During the night of the 29th September, 1962, the Workington life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX, which was at moorings off Lytham after survey broke adrift and was driven...
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BODY FOUND AFTER SEARCH WITH HELICOPTER Weymouth, Dorset. At 12.55 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and a girl were stranded on some rocks below the cliffs at Lulworth Cove....
A Sailing Boat (3)
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized off Bognor Regis. At 3.55 the life-boat John R. Webb, on temporary duty at the station...
Opening of New Headquarters at Poole
THURSDAY, MAY 6, the day on which HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, came down to Dorset to open the new headquarters at Poole in the morning and name the new Swanage lifeboat in the afternoon, was both memorable and happy; a. day...
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