LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ferjo
STANDING BY A SWEDISH COAL SHIP Walton and Frinton, Essex.—-At 11.50 on the night of the 16th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the Sunk Lightship that a vessel was showing flares. A fresh west- south-west gale was...
Special Gifts
From the Sale of Lavender.
IT has already been mentioned in The Life-boat that last year money was made for Branches by the sale of flowers at the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton Life-boathouse, and also at Appledore. The...
Category: Donations
A Motor Boat
BODIES FOUND At fifteen minutes past midnight on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that 315 foot outboard motor boat, known asa"Cruisette", had left the River Teign at 10.30 a.m.
the...
My Lady
POLISH TRAWLERS GUIDED TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
On the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht My Lady of Hartlepool, which had a crew of five, grounded on a sandbank just inside the entrance to...
Thor
FISHING BOAT TOWED AFTER ENGINE FAILS Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 2.4 on the morning of the 10th October, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the motor mechanic, in the absence of the honorary secretary, a message from the fishery cruiser...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1955, a local County Councillor asked if the life-boat would take a doctor and a nurse from Stromness to Hoy to attend a very old lady who had pneu- monia at Linksness. The...
A Motor Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.5 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, believed to be one in which the life-boat honorary secretary's son and two of his friends had put out earlier in the day....
Dolphin
Aberdeen.—At 11.14 on the morn- ing of the 4th of June, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that the lugger Maria, of Scheveningen, had wirelessed that she had in tow another Dutch lugger, the Dolphin, whose engine room was full of water....
A Sea Balliol Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...
Alcmaria
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.43 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957,/the Walney coastguard telephoned that the trawler Dean Swift had wirelessed that the steam trawler Alcmaria, of Lowestoft, with a crew of ten, needed help seven miles...