LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tonibell
OUT OF CONTROL Dover, Kent. At 9.1 p.m. on 3oth August, 1964, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small flare had been sighted to seawards. It was two hours before low water and very calm. At 9.16 the life-boat Southern Africa...
The Barrels Lightvessel
MOTHER WAS DYING At 5.10 p.m. on 23rd July, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the services of the life-boat to land a member of the Barrels lightvessel crew whose mother was dying. It was a fine day with a smooth sea and light airs...
Fortune II
YACHT RESCUED At 6.10 p.m. on i2th June, 1965, the motor yacht Fortune II was observed flying a distress signal. Her position was three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the harbour. There were light variable airs with a smooth sea and...
Feature: the Survival Centre
A crew member urges the Severn class Lifeboat towards her destination, a burning tanker apparently on the horizon. Just metres away, the crew of an Atlantic 75 lifeboat works hard to right their capsized vessel It sounds like a scene...
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An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
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Doggy paddle
When Oscar the dog’s owners throw him a ball, he usually fetches it straight back. But on 13 June he decided it would be much more fun to carry on nosing it out to sea until he was almost 300m from the shore. His worried owners reported his...
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The Tongue Lightvessel
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...
M.F.V. Andreas
Two fishing vessels A MOTOR FISHING VESSEL sinking off Sarclett Head on her way back from fishing grounds was reported to the honorary secretary of Wick lifeboat station at 0135 on Thursday May 21 by HM Coastguard. The lifeboat crew were...
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a white rocket had been fired from Sanda Island. It was pre- sumed that medical help was needed, and at 11.7 the...
Chance
HIDDEN ROCK HAZARD Wick, Caithness-shire. At i .35 p.m. on 27th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Chance had made a distress call reporting that she was ashore at Hillman Head, three miles...