LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.10 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1949, a wireless message picked up by the Fifeness coastguard and sent to the Seahouses coastguard said that a workman engaged on the reconstruction of the...
Little John
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1950, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a trawler in Moelfre Bay was flying a signal asking for a boat to stand by her. At 2.15, therefore, the life-boat G.W....
A Dinghy (1)
TWO BOYS TAKEN OFF DRIFTING BOAT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 21st July, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two boys on board was adrift off Brazil buoy as her engine had broken down....
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RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She...
A Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who...
Lieutenant Alphonse Herbez
Galway Bay.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 5th of February, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported a French trawler on the rocks one and a half miles south-east of Kilronan pier. Another French trawler had called at Kilronan...
A Sailboard
Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...
Lea Rig, Fisherboy and Crest
JAN. 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Four seine net fishing boats- Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crestwere overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso. The motor...
Willesden
Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.25 A.M. on the 8th May news was received from the coastguard that an S O S
Sjodroninjan
EASTBOURNE.—On the morning of the 4th January intelligence was received that a vessel was ashore between the Bell Tout Lighthouse and Birling Gap. The William and Mary Life-boat put off at about 8.15 during a fresh S.E. wind and a heavy sea,...