LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Artigas
FROM GREEK SHIP At 5.25 p.m. on 6th November, 1964, the coxswain superintendent received a telephone message from a Hull shipping agent saying that a member of the crew of the Greek vessel Artigas was injured and needed hospital treatment....
The S.S. Foreland
Great Yarmouth and Corleston, Norfolk.
At 9.40 in the morning of the 20th of May, 1948, the S.S. Foreland., of Blyth, anchored off Great Yarmouth and sig- nalled for a doctor. At 9.57 the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...
A Dinghy (1)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.2 p.m.
on 20th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had capsized about half a mile west of the harbour entrance. At 6.5 the IRB launched in a slight southerly breeze and a...
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BY LIFE-BOAT AND AEROPLANE TO HOSPITAL Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 12th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health telephoned that a girl, dangerously ill with meningi- tis in Lerwick Hospital must be...
Casquet
YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the...
Diloma
CHINESE SEAMEN RESCUED Sundeiiand, Durham.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1947, the Sunderland coastguard telephoned that the Seaham coastguard had re- ported that the motor vessel Diloma, a tanker, had struck submerged...
A Tender
Moelfre, Anglesey. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of Septem- ber, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a tender engaged on diving operations had dragged her anchor in Benllech Bay. One engine had stopped and...
Seagull
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a motor cabin cruiser, on passage from Conway to Eastham, had arrived at the Bar...
Placard
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 4.22 p.m. on igth March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Placard of London, anchored four miles off Yarmouth, required help. At 4.40 the life-boat Louise Stephens...
A Sailing Boat
At about 7 A.M. on the 19th October two young men started from Lynmouth with the intention of sailing to Porlock, but when off the Foreland the adverse wind and tide carried them about five miles out into the Channel. Here they got into...