LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — During the morning of the 31st of March, 1951, five local fishing cobles were at sea in bad weather and people were anxious for their safety. At 11.0 it was decided to launch the life-boat; and at 11.20 the...
A Doctor's Advice By Wireless
MR. MOYLE, the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, has sent a very interesting story of help given in an unexpected way by the life-boat's radio-telephony set.
On Sunday, 13th...
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Galway Bay, Co. Gal way.—On the 3rd March, 1938, the honorary secretary, the Rev. Father Killeen, was weatherbound on the island of Inishmaan, and as his presence was essential at Kilronan, he sent a wireless message for the motor life-boat...
Tonsidor
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.34 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1958, the east pier watchman reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on Brake Sands near No. 3 buoy and needed help. At 6.42 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a...
Tarka
JUST IN TIME Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.30 in the morning of the 26th of September, 1947, the Grove Point coastguard re- ported that a motor boat had broken down, and that signals were being made by the people on board. The motor life-boat...
Norcin
ANOTHER ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 19th of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen two miles north-north-east iof the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
Boy Arthur and Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at half past eleven in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1948, as two fishing cobles were overdue and a moderate west-south-west gale was blowing...
Myrtle
Howth, Co. Dublin,—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1949, the life-boat R'.P.L. was launched for exercise in a rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing, and shortly after noticed a fishing boat one mile east of...
Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 19th of May, 1955, the fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy breaking swell at the harbour bar, and at 12.34 the No. 1 life-boat J. W.
Archer, on...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide three hundred yards east of Splash Point, Seaford. Eight minutes later the life-boat Cecil...