LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Will Everard
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.
Ten minutes later the Lade...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.49 on the night of the 7th of August, 1953, the police reported that eight people had left Groomsport in a motor boat at six o'clock and had been due back at 9.30. As they were still missing, the life-boat Sir...
Silver Spray
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 12.14 P-mon i3th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard an open motor boat situated at Ness of Sound was trying to attract attention. The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth was...
None (1)
Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...
Livanita (1)
SECOND SERVICE TO NORWEGIAN MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.15 on the morning of the 27th February, 1963, the port medical officer telephoned to say that the motor vessel Livanita of Grimstad, which had a sick man on board, was...
The S.S. Martaban
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 3.55 early on the morning of the llth of March, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Martaban, whose position was eight miles south-by-west of Mumbles Head, had a fire in...
Praunheim, of Bremen
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 9.30 a.m.
on 3Oth July, 1967, a message was received from Valentia radio that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Praunheim of Bremen, and a request had been made for the life-boat to...
A Dinghy
GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.
The ILB launched at 1225....
Lottie
RAMSGATE, KENT.—While endeavouring to return to the harbour, in a whole gale from E. and a heavy sea, on the 1st February, the smack Lottie struck the West Pier, and was driven to the back of it. Her anchor was let go but it did not hold,...
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
THE Marchioness of Carisbrooke, who is already associated with the Life-boat Service as President of the Scarborough Branch, has very kindly accepted an invitation from the Committee of Man- agement to become President of the Ladies'...
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