LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Loch Ranza
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 20th of August,1956, the coastguard rang up to say a message had been received from the S.S. Loch Ranza, of Glasgow, asking that an injured man be taken ashore.
At 10.20...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.24 on the night of the 23rd of March, 1957, a telephone message was received that a man had left the harbour in an open 12-feet sailing dinghy bound for Porte- let Bay at noon but had been seen twice during...
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...
Ramadhan
Penlee, Cornwall - At 5 p.m. on loth September, 1966, the life-boat was asked to take a sick man off the motor vessel Ramadhan which would be arriving in Mounts Bay at about 8.45. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 7.30. It was low...
St. Joachim
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.30 p.m. on 18th October, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the French trawler St. Joachim was proceeding to Spurn with an injured man on board. The help of the life-boat was asked for to...
The Aberdeen Trawler Admiral Mountbatten
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 5.30 p.m.
on loth December, 1965, the harbour master was informed that the Aberdeen trawler Admiral Mountbatten was arriving in Wick Bay with an injured man on board. A pilot boat took the injured...
H.M.S. Saltburn
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 11.25 at night the honorary secretary of the life-boat station received a telephone message from the Barrow police that a vessel was arriving off Lightening Knoll at midnight and...
Pulled from the brink
28 April: Tower A drowning man was pulled from the River Thames and resuscitated by crew and the police after he was spotted floating face down in the water. Helmsman Kevin Maynard explains: ‘One of the police...
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The Wireless Transmitting Station Radio Scotland
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 7 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, a newspaper office telephoned the honorary secretary to ask if the Dunbar life-boat Margaret had been launched to the wireless transmitting station Radio Scotland, as they had been...
May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
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