LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 23rd of June, 1952, a party of twenty-one people, belonging to Skibbereen, left Baltimore for Cape Clear Island eight miles from the mainland, but did not arrive back in the evening when expected. Their friends...
Aureity
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 26th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the tanker Aureity of Lon- don had fallen down a ladder and might have broken some ribs...
Hunting for Divers
MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...
Category: Services
Midnight
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1956, the Wyke coastguard telephoned that a yacht was out of control twenty-five miles south-west of Portland Bill and needed help. At seven o'clock the life-boat William and...
The Codling Lightvessel
Wicklow.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from the Irish Lights stating that a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel was suffering from a poisoned hand and asking if the life-boat would...
A Boat
Poole, Dorset. — At 10.30 on the night of the llth of March, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a boat with two boys on board was missing and that the boys' parents were becoming anxious.
A...
A Whaler from H.M.S. Bulwark
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.55 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a naval whaler was in difficulties one mile north-cast of Strumble Head.
The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched...
Tracy Jane
Workington, Cumberland - At 7.20 p.m. on 31st March, 1969, the coastguard reported that the cabin cruiser Tracy Jane, with one crew member on board, was in difficulties between Parton and Harrington. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX...
Water and wine
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Hartlepool: Young supporter runs for lives
Millie Crangle is a 9-year-old RNLI supporter and the daughter of volunteer Crew Member Mark. Last year, she took on the Junior Great North Run to help save lives at sea – raising over £400 and
running 4km. Millie says: ‘It...
Category: Articles