LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
ME. NORMAN N. DODDS, Member of Parliament for Dartford, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on the 8th of December, 1954, "if, in view of the rescue by a United States helicopter from the South Goodwin lightship when all...
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Moby Dick
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from the Barrow pilot boat. The pilot boat had found the 24-feet sailing yacht...
Stromness
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.—4th Octo- ber, 1939. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life- boat Robert and Ellen...
An Attacker Aeroplane
Cromer, Norfolk.—About three o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1952, the police reported an aeroplane in difficulties and at 3.25 the coastguard telephoned a message from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group that the aeroplane was an...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the Harwich police had reported that a man and a woman were stranded on a sandbank in Dovercourt Bay...
Sealight
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 12.15 on the morning of the 22nd of Sep- tember, 1956, the Southend coast- guard telephoned that a red rocket had been seen five miles south-east-by-east of the look-out. At 12.39 the life- boat City of Glasgow...
A Sea Venom Aircraft
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.20 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Sea Venom aircraft with a crew of two had ex- ploded in the air off Lilstock one mile from the shore....
Southern Cross and Helga
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1958, a competitor in a local sailing race told the honorary secretary on coming ashore that another yacht in the race had been dismasted and might need help. At 6.20 the...
Kestrel and Anemone III
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.27 in the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1948, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making very heavy weather about one and a half miles south-south-east of the Gap, and the motor life-boat...
Covesea and Ocean Swell
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...