LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Trinity House Vessel Mermaid
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.42 on the evening of the 17th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Trinity House vessel Mermaid, which had a sick man aboard, was making for Yarmouth roads...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
LAUNCH TO LIGHTVESSEL FOR SICK MAN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary treasurer that a member of the crew of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel was sick and needed hospital...
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MAN OFF CLIFFS At 9.50 a.m. on 22nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man had been washed off the cliffs at Lands End. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 10.6 in a strong west-northwesterly breeze and a...
The German Ship Clivia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 a.m. on 6th May, 1967, news was recieved that the Solomon Browne would be needed to take a sick man to hospital from the German ship Clivia which was approaching Mount's Bay in a choppy sea and poor weather. At...
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 6.50 P.M. information was received that a man had been cut off by the tide on a rock half a mile from the boat house, and was in great danger. A S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea, and the tide was rising....
The Local Fishing Boat Lady Betty
OCTOBER 19TH.. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
About one o’clock in the afternoon, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Lady Betty, with only one man on board, had broken down and was drifting out to sea towards the...
Shirken
JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oysterhaven, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford 1, on temporary duty at the station, was...
The S.S. Turrethill
— On the 13th May the s.s. Turrethill, of Newcastle- on - Tyne, whilst bound from Goole with a cargo of coal to Poole, Dorset- shire, capsized when off Southwold. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, with a rough sea, and unhappily...
The S.S. Cordale
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 11.11 on the night of the 7th of May, 1949, the police told the life-boat station, through the coastguard, that a doctor was needed for a man with a dislocated shoulder on board the...
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St. Mary's, Ides of Scilly.—On the night of the 24th February two doctors, who are members of the local committee, told the honorary secretary that they had examined a serious appendicitis case, and had decided that the man must be got...