LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Galilee, Success, Provider and Lead Us
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 10th of February, 1953, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad and four local fishing vessels were still at sea. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 12.38 in a...
A Tow Through a Gale to Aberdeen
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
Category: Services
Awards for Bravest Deeds of 1953
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act, of life-saving in 1953 has been won by Coxswain HughNelson,ofDonagha- dee, County Down. The award has been made for the service to the Princess Victoria on the 31st of Jan- uary, 1953, when the...
Category: Awards
Isabel May
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 9.15 on the evening of the 4th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down with engine trouble twelve miles north-west of Point Lynas.
At 9.30...
Star of Freedom
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 6.50 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Star of Freedom was drifting ashore with engine trouble four and a half miles west of Loch...
Conway
Margate, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 10th of February, 1957, the life- boat Cunard was on passage from Brightlingsea to Margate to carry out temporary duty. At the entrance to the River Colne the coxswain saw a man standing up in a motor...
Dollard
Poole, Dorset.—At nine o'clock on the evening of the 30th of November, 1957, a message was received that the motor vessel Dollard, of Rotterdam, was ashore on Hook Sands and that the master had asked if the life-boat would stand by when...
An Aircraft
Fraserburgb, Aberdeenshire. At 9.55 on the morning of the 30th of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed that an aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Station at Lossiemouth had crashed at the Rosehearty rocket...
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HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...
Petree
YACHT FOUND ABANDONED AND ASHORE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 11.20 on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Hilbre Island, and at 12.6 the reserve life-boat Frank...