LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Life-Boat's Trip of 669 Miles
THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...
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Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 21st of May, 1954, ten local fishing cobles were overtaken by bad weather, and at 10.50 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched, with the bowman in charge. She escorted the boats to...
M.B.E. for Fishguard Honorary Secretary
MR. MORRIS LYNDON NICHOLLS, who has been the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Fishguard since 1916, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours, in recognition of his life- boat work. In...
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Delightful (1)
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
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Southwold, Suffolk. At 12.30 p.m.
on 5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was stranded on a mud bank in the River Blythe by the rising tide. At 12.40 the inshore rescue boat launched in...
A Vampire Aircraft (1)
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
Urmajo
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.19 early on the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run on to the Goodwin Sands, inside the Xorth Goodwin buoy, and was firing rockets. At 2.38 the life- boat Greater London,...
A Gannet Aircraft (2)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
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Galway Bay - At 5.40 p.m. on 2nd November, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat to attend a woman on Inishere Island who was seriously ill. At 6.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson with the doctor on board, left...
Blue Star
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 11.15 p.m. on 27th June, 1967, it was learned that the speed boat Blue Star with one man on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The life-boat St. Albans was launched at 12.07 a.m. on 28th in a gentle north...