LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Daybreak
Between 10 and 11 A.M. on the 10th January the ketch Daybreak, of Peterhead, bound for Stonehaveu with a cargo of coal, came into Stonehaven Bay with the intention of making the i harbour. The wind was blowing \ Lifestrongly from the south...
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Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Coast Life-saving Service at Skerries telephoned that two boys were stranded on an uninhabited island off Skerries.
At 7.50 the life-boat George...
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FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
Kirby
At 6.15 A.M. on the 13th October the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station told the coxswain that Holmpton coastguard had reported a steam trawler ashore at Dimlington. She was the Kirby. of Grimsby, bound home from the fishing grounds, with a...
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INJURED BOY BROUGHT BY SKIFF TO LIFE-BOAT Wicklow. At 6.58 on the evening of the 10th June, 1962, a member of the Garda told the coxswain that a boy had fallen fifty feet down a cliff three miles south of Wicklow. The life-boat /. W. Archer...
Hazhad
HELP FROM MOTOR BOAT, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht off the Conway estuary was being kept under observation...
Registan
DOCTOR, AMBULANCE MEN AND PILOT TAKEN OUT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.39 on the evening of the 20th May, 1963, Niton radio station informed the honorary secretary that a seaman on board the motor vessel Registan of London had been...
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 3.5 ^jn. on 26th June, 1965, members of the inshore'rescue'boat crew saw two people waving towels to attract attention at the foot of the cliffs about a quarter of a mile north-east of the station. The IRB...
Nomad
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 12.J5 on the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1958, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Harbour and Docks Board told the honorary secretary that the crew of two of the yacht Nomad had spent the night on the Bar...
An Inflatable dinghy
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Black- pool life-boat was searching for three youths who had drifted out to sea in an...