LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine Shaun, of Fleetwood
Caister, Norfolk - At 8.45 p.m. on 22nd July, 1968, a life-boat helperinformed the motor mechanic that a radio message from the trawler Catherine Shaun of Fleetwood had been intercepted, reporting that she had an injured man on board who...
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The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 30th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Fordfield had sighted a floating body a mile and a half from Helwick Passage buoy and that she would stand...
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SURGEON AND ANESTHETIST TAKEN TO ISLAND Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1962, a request was received from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the life-boat to take a surgeon and an anaesthetist to a hospital in Lamlash,...
The Converted Brixham Trawler Forseti
Selsey, Sussex. At 9.36 on the morning of the 18th of November.
1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the converted Brixham trawler Forseti of Newhaven was ashore off Selsey Bill. At 10.4 it was...
Mary, of Liverpool
About 2 o'clock on the 7th March, at which time it was blowing hard from the E., with a heavy sea, the schooner Mary, of Liverpool, bound from Maryport Eostrevor, struck on the South Bull near the mouth of the Boyne. The No. 2 Life-boat...
Emblem, Times and Delembra
HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE —It having been reported that some of the boats engaged in cockle-fishing were in a dangerous position on the West Hoyle bank on the 2nd May, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 4.25 P.M., and in two trips...
Primrose
Workington, Cumberland. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a fishing boat was firing red flares one mile south of Workington pier. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 31ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. About 1.30 in the afternoon a message was received from the Hartland Point coastguard that an aeroplane had dived into the sea three miles north of Sharp Nose Point. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Raymond
At 1.45 P.M. on the 23rd December, information was received that a vessel was ashore on the Margate Sands, and the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched. On arriving at the Sands, I the...
William and Martha and Venture
ESCORTED FISHING BOATS At 8.20 a.m. on i6th November, 1965, two small fishing cobles were reported to be out in very bad weather conditions and the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 8.30 in a south-easterly gale and a rough sea. It...