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...
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...
Vole
At 7. p.m. on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported aground to the west of the pier. There was a light north easterly wind with a slight sea and thick fog. It was one hour after low water. The no. 2 life-boat William Henry and Mary King...
Uncle George
ENGINE DIFFICULTIES At 5 p.m. on 30th August, 1964, the watchman on the east pier told the coxswain that a motor launch had broken down in the smooth seas just off the Quern buoy. At 5.10 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out into a...
A Boat (2)
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.47 p.m. on 29th October, 1967, the Deal coast-guard informed the life-boat coxswain that a small boat near the entrance to the river Stour needed help. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 6.5 in...
The United States Amphibious Force L.C.I. 493, 498, 502, and 506
FEBRUARY 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 4.47 in the afternoon the resident naval officer telephoned through the coastguard that landing craft belonging to the United States Amphibious Force were ashore on Paignton beach, between...