LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...

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Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork - At 6.40 p.m. on 15th April, 1968, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Rose Crest was in difficulties with engine trouble south of...

At 4 p.m. on 29th September, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v. Dunedin Star,of London, needed to be brought ashore.

At 9.45 the Solomon Browne life-boat was launched. The tide was ebbing. A doctor and ambulance crew were...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 4.40 p.m.

on loth June, 1967, information was received that a boat was flying distress signals five miles from Ballycotton. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at the station, slipped...

INJURED MAN ON TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At midnight on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary notified the coxswain that the tanker Verconella was making for Mounts Bay with a badly injured man on board.

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