LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Olive
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 9.30 on the night of the 14th of August, 1955, the police reported that a woman and her two sons, who were on holiday in Falmouth, had put off in the local sailing boat Olive the morning before for a trip in Falmouth...
British Empress
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the Lowestoft berthing master reported that the master of the tanker British Empress, of London, which was lying off the Gorton lightvessel, had asked for the Port Medical...
A German Trawler
The following account of a service by the Helvick Head, Co. Waterford, life- boat on the 17th of December, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the March, 1960, number of the Life- boat.
At 5.30 in the evening the...
Praise from the Pensioners
Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.
Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...
Category: Correspondence
City of Waterford
HELICOPTER AIDS RESCUE At 9.30 a.m. on i2th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel City of Waterford of Dublin, six miles southwest of St. Catherine's Point, was on fire and that the crew of...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 4th April, 1961, Dr. T.
Hepburn informed the honorary secre- tary that a man was very ill on the Island of Foula and asked if the life- boat could be placed at his disposal...
A Dinghy
Drifting dinghy ON THE EVENING of Monday June 29, 1981, John McAllister was working at Garron Point, east of Red Bay lifeboat station, when he saw people waving in a small dinghy off the point. He telephoned the station's deputy...
A Sailing Dinghy
Capsized dinghy A SAILING DINGHY which had capsized against Brighton eastern marina breakwater was reported by the marina security to the deputy launching authority of Brighton lifeboat station at 1758 on Sunday June 19. The station's...
Carita (1)
APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the...
Balmoral
ON HAISBOROUGH SANDS Cromer, Norfolk. —At 7.22 in the morning of the 4th of January, 1948, the coastguards telephoned information received from the Haisborough Light- vessel that a vessel 011 the North Middle Haisborough Sands was...