LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Constance Bowater
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 3 p.m. on 22nd October, 1965, a message was received via Land's End radio from the motor vessel Constance Bowater that she had a seriously ill seaman aboard and requested that he be taken off and sent to...
Arrow, of Derbyhaven
OCTOBER 27TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 3.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was flying a distress signal south-east of Scarlett Point. A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor...
New Ways of Raising Money
THREE thousand gas-filled balloons were released from Torquay sea front with cards attached to each balloon bearing the name of someone who had paid one shilling to the Torquay branch of the Institution. Three prizes were awarded for the...
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Rnli News
AGM 1986. Governors please note The RNLI's annual meetings for 1986 will take place on Tuesday May 13 at the South Bank, London. The governor's annual general meeting will be held in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 11.30 am and the...
Category: Articles
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Search for missing boys THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY at St Agnes was informed by Falmouth Coastguard at 1746 on Tuesday August 28, 1984, that a youth was cut off by the tide at Chapelporth. Maroons were immediately fired and by 1750 St...
Jose Ramon
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 9.15 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Seven Stones lightvessel that the trawler Jose Ramon of San Sebastian was...
A Pulling Boat
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. — At 6.40 on the night of the 13th of March, 1949, a man telephoned to the life-boat station that a pulling boat with two girls in it was drifting down the river Liffy. There was a fresh south- westerly wind, the sea was...
Sorata
Falmouth, Cornwall. — At 9.15 on the night of the 9th of September, 1951, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a yacht three miles south-east-by-south of St. Anthony Point was flying a flag and using only one of her sails. At 9.30 the...
The Liberian Motor Vessel Tyne Ore
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.7 a.m.
on i8th September, 1966, the Liberian motor vessel Tyne Ore had a sick man on board who required urgent medicalattention. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at i.io....
The Sailing Boat Shira
Falmouth, Cornwall. — About 6.45 in the evening, on the 23rd of April, 1950, the police reported that a man had been found unconscious at St. Just. When he recovered he had told them a com- panion was adrift in the sailing boat Shira. At...