LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tom Boy
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.50 A.M. on the 2nd August it was reported verbally to the coxswain that a flare had been seen from a yacht. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat The Viscountess Wakefield was launched at...
Bluemaster
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Bluemaster, .and that her master wanted to land...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 29th of May, 1958, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient urgently needing surgical help to the mainland.
At 3.40 the life-boat William and...
H.M. Trawlers Madden and Tamora
APRIL 14TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a trawler would arrive shortly, with injured men on board to be landed, and at 6.50 P.M. two appeared, H.M. Trawlers Madden and Tamora. A moderate N.W....
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the coastguard reported that a party of bathers off Nayland Rock had got into difficulties. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As it was dead low water...
Peggy
JULY 17TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning information came from Troon pilot house that a small fishing boat was flying a flag and appeared to have broken down three miles south-west of Troon. At 6.45 the motor life-boat Sir David...
The S.S. G. MacLaren
FEBRUARY 8TH. - PORTASKAIG ARGYLLSHIRE. At 4.35 A.M. the Southend coastguard informed the life-boat station that a vessel was in distress south of Colonsay.
A strong southerly wind was blowing, and it was dark and foggy....
The Admiralty Patrol Vessel Robina Ingles
OCTOBER 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.20 in the morning a message came from the senior naval officer, through the Blyth coastguard, that the Admiralty patrol vessel Robina Ingles appeared to be in difficulties. She...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
at , by the grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, gt all to whom these Presents shall come Whereas the late SIR WILLIAM HILLARY, Baronet; the late MR. THOMAS WILSON, Member of...
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