LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Ship's Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 1st of August, 1955, the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched to stand by during a local reg-atta, but at 7.50 in the evening the coastguard reported that four men in a...
Noddy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.30 on the night of the 6th of September, 1955, the police rang up to say that a woman had reported that the motor launch Noddy, which had been out all day with her son and three friends on board, had not returned....
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 28th of March, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, which had a crew of five, had run ashore on the eastern side of Barra Island....
Solskin, of Oslo
Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9.45 on the night of the 22nd of March, 1957, a local Trinity House official called on the coxswain and asked if the life-boat would launch to bring ashore an injured man from the Longstone lighthouse,...
Provider and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of September, 1957, the coxswain reported that two fishing cobles were at sea in very bad weather conditions. He had spoken to Flamborough coastguard, who had said that one of the...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 13th of June, 1960, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would go to Inishere Island and take a sick woman to Rossaveal on the mainland for hospital treatment....
U.S. Coast Guard Disaster
Five members of the United States Coast Guard lost their lives in an attempted rescue at the mouth of the Columbia River on the 12th of January, 1961, when three life-boats put out to the help of a crab boat. One of the life- boats, a...
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Arka
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the night of the 9th October, 1961, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that a Polish fishing vessel was aground near the old pier lighthouse.
At eleven o'clock, the...
A Dinghy (4)
LIFE-BOAT BREAKS ADRIFT AT NIGHT Lytham-StAnne's, Lancashire. During the night of the 29th September, 1962, the Workington life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX, which was at moorings off Lytham after survey broke adrift and was driven...