LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
Trusty, of Boston
Another rescue was effected at this life- boat station on the 19th October. The schooner Trusty, of Boston, was stranded off Runton about a mile and a-half eastward of Sheringham Beach. It was blowing a fearful gale from the N.N.E. at the...
Sea Fox (1)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
Vera
Shortly after 8 P.M. on the 15th October distress signals were observed from the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel, indicating that a vessel was ashore and required assist- ance. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were...
Broadcast of a Launch at New Brighton
ON 2nd January a broadcast of a launch of the motor life-boat at New Brighton, was given in the North Regional programme. The firing of the maroons, the orders of the cox- swain and the sounds of the life-boat leaving New Brighton stage were...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
DOVER.—In the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed, at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat was constructed by Mr.
CLARKSON, of a material which he has patented, composed of...
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Rosemary V
Torbay, Devon.—At 2.42 early on the morning of the 6th of December, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help had been heard off Freshwater Quarry. At 3.10 the life- boat George Shee put to sea. There was a slight...
Zircon
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
Mary Robinson
TROUBLE WITH NETS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 10 p.m. on 26th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, situated north-east of Newbiggin Church Point, were at sea in worsening weather conditions. The...
Ellen
WHITHORN.—A vessel having been repotted dismasted in Wigtown Bay on the 9th October, the Life-boat Henry and John Leighton was launched at'3.10 P.M., being in the water in ten minutes from the time the signals were fired to summon the...