LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
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Giovanni
The same Life-boat was also called out in very bad weather on the 8th October, a dismasted vessel having been observed about three miles east of the harbour. The boat reached her in about an hour's time and found she was the barque...
North King
DOCTOR PUT ON BOARD TANKER IN SNOWSTORM Humber, Yorkshire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board a tanker two miles south of the...
Gaia
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 8.50 in the morning, on the llth of September, 1950, the Cromer coastguard telephonedthat the Dudgeon lightvessel had re- ported a sailing yacht circling the light- vessel in need of help. Accordingly, at 9.5 the life...
A Boat (1)
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small pulling boat was in difficulties half-a-mile east of the south pier light. There was a moderate...
None (7)
Islay, Hebrides. At 8.15 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1960, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that he needed help urgently to convey a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. Owing to dense fog the air...
Moira Herd
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 8.30 p.m. on 29th January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the M.F.V. Moira Herd was aground at Red Beacon, Holm Head. The lifeboat James and Margaret Boyd proceeded to the casualty at...
A Boat (2)
Four lifeboats in search for missing anglers Lifeboats from Whitstable, Margate, Sheerness and Walton and Frinton were involved in a massive search for a man and his 12-year-old son after they failed to return in their 14ft boat following a...
Harmony, of Bideford
About mid- night on the 29th March a vessel was re- ported on shore on the South Tail, Bideford Bar, wind blowing strong from N.N.W., and a heavy sea on. The Hope life-boat was im- mediately launched, and succeeded in saving the crew of 3...
A Small Motor Fishing Boat
On the 1st July two men went fishing in a small motor boat, but got into difficulties, and at 9.38 P.M. the Coastguard received information from a civilian—to whom they had previously arranged to signal if necessary—that the boat was in dis-...