LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swanage, Dorset - At 7.53 p.m. on 16th May, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a girl was injured on the cliff half a mile west of Anvil point. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 8.5. It was three hours after...
Christine
SEEN FROM TRAIN Wicklow. At 12.45 a-m- on 25tn October, 1963, a driver of a train bound from Dublin to Wexford saw flares and a flashing light at sea a few miles north of Wicklow. He made an unscheduled stop, cut the engine and made his way...
Marie Bhan
Wick, Caithness-shire. At noon on the 6th of September, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat needed help ten miles south-east of Wick. The life- boat was not launched immediately as all the local...
Errata
The following account of a service was omitted in error from the December 1960 number of the Life-boat.
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 5.4 on the morning of the 2nd of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary...
Category: Articles
Franz Schubert
TWO WERE HELPED At 8 p.m. on the same day the coxswain was told that a vessel was ashore between Dumpton and Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis left her moorings at 8.15 taking the boarding boat with her.
There...
Scottish Maid and Seaspray
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 5.10 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a yacht was ashore on the Cardiff sands.
The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched at 5.15 in a gale force...
Sprite
APRIL 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M.
the motor life-boat...
An Aeroplane (10)
APRIL 25TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 2.40 in the afternoon the Greenore military look-out post reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse.
Messages were also...
The S.S. Empire Gatehouse, Formerly Jutland
DECEMBER 28TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 11.13 in the morning, the coastguard reported that North Foreland Radio had received an SOS call from the S.S.
Empire Gatehouse, formerly the German steamer Jutland....
Various Vessels (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...