LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boats
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the honorary secretary that a small boat fitted with an outboard motor had capsized outside the harbour. At...
The S.S. Ribblehead
Barrow, Lancashire. At 11.35 on the morning of the llth of December, 1959, a firm of shipping agents in- formed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Ribblehead, which had sailedon the morning tide from...
A Sailing Dinghy
At 6.15 p.m. on 4th June, 1970, a member of the crew of the Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, IRB saw a sailing dinghy with one man on board in difficulties three quarters of a mile off shore. The IRB was launched at 6.20.
There...
Livanita
MAN FROM NORWEGIAN VESSEL OVERBOARD Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 18th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was reported overboard from the Norwegian motor vessel Livanita of...
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SICK MAN TAKEN FROM ISLAND Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.50 on the morning of the 18th March, 1963, the medical officer for the Isle of Colonsay informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient suffering from a gastric perforation...
A Motor Boat
Humber, Yorkshire - At 7.28 p.m.
on 18th February, 1968, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a motor boat was in difficulties off Cleethorpes pier. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the...
Tap
Weymouth, Dorset - At 7.20 p.m. on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about one mile seawards of Church Ope Cove.
The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...
A Dinghy (4)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.10 a.m. on 7th November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted a quarter of a mile east of the north pier. At 1.18 thelife-boat Khami slipped her...
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Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.
Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the...
Prince
JAN. 16TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 6.55 P.M. it was reported that the open motorfishing boat Prince, of Torquay, with three men on board, was overdue on a trip from Torquay to Brixham, and that owing to the poor condition of her engine anxiety...