LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minerva
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—Whilst running for the harbour, on the evening of the 7th December, the ketch Minerva, of Bridgwater, bound from Hayle for Bristol with sand, and the steamer Bride, of Hayle, with coal and coke, struck on the western spit of...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of December, 1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned that a workman, who had been weather-bound in the Skelligs Rock lighthouse for a fort- night, had been taken ill and...
Harold Brown
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 21st of Decem- ber, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the tug Harold Brown, which had a dumb barge in tow, had run aground about four hundred yards east of Shoreham Harbour. At...
Nissan
Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.50 on the evening of the 12th of January, 1955.
the life-boat motor mechanic noticed distress rockets two and a half miles to the eastward. At 9.5 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. There was a...
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.26 on the evening of the llth of April, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the light- keepers at the Breakwater lighthouse had signalled that they had recovered the body of a twelve-year-old girl from the sea at...
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the llth of October, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to convey a child who was seriously ill to Kirkwall hospital. As there was no other boat...
Snowflake
Stromness, Orkneys. At ten o'clock on the night of the 10th of December, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that there was a boat ashore in Hoy Sound. Ten minutes later the life-boat Archibald and Alex- ander M....
Volare
Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.40 on the evening of the 20th of June, 1959, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had been seen drifting on the ebb tide past Broughty Ferry. Her crew of three were waving a white towel or...
Suantrai
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.53 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was being carried across Kilbrannon Sound. At 12.8 the life-boat City...
Girl Pat
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 11.15 on the night of the 22nd of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Girl Pat was overdue on passage from Newport, Pembrokeshire, to Tresaeth near Aber- porth. The...