LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lilian May
Minehead, Somerset.—At 10.35 on the night of the Slst of August, 1951, the Watchet Coastguard Live-saving Company reported that dim flares could be seen off Watchet. Five people were known to have left Barry for Watchet in the motor boat...
A Ship's Boat
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 1st of August, 1955, the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and District XXX was launched to stand by during a local reg-atta, but at 7.50 in the evening the coastguard reported that four men in a...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 13th of June, 1960, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would go to Inishere Island and take a sick woman to Rossaveal on the mainland for hospital treatment....
A Naval Whaler
The Lizard, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1960, in- formation was received that a naval whaler manned by an officer and four cadets on passage from Falmouth to Penzance was off the Lizard and might be in difficulties...
Mary
FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the principal keeper of the St.
Abbs Head lighthouse telephoned to say the local fishing coble Mary, which had...
Speedwell
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing white light had been seen four miles west-north-west of Aberystwyth. The honorary secretary went...
Enterprise
Stromness, Orkneys. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 13th of March, 1959, the assistant motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had heard the motor fishing vessel Enterprise calling for help on his radio.
Lady Lundy
TOWED IN At 8.28 a.m. on i6th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Lady Lundy had called for assistance by radiotelephony through North Foreland radio station. She was approximately four miles...
Ashdene, of Sunderland
Amble, Northumberland - At 1.14 a.m. on i5th July, 1967, it was learnt that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Ashdene of Sunderland required urgent medical assistance. The life-boat Millie Walton, with a doctor on board, slipped her...
A Dinghy and a Yacht
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...