LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were...
A Sea Cadet Naval Whaler
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea off the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The message was...
A Dinghy
Poole, Dorset.—At 1.55 early on the morning of the 7th of July, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a dinghy, which three youths had hired the evening before, was missing from Rockby Sands. At 2.15 the life-boat...
The Sailing Boat Corsair
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 4.44 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a small sailing boat appeared to be in need of help two miles south-east of Shoreham harbour. Her crew of four were waving an oar...
Windsor Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1957, the Cromer coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Windsor Rose was making for Sheringham in very bad weather. At 7.42 the life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
Tom Paul
Workington, Cumberland. At 4.30 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed by a pilot that the pilot boat had not returned to harbour. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 8.30 in a...
Musketier
Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.45 on the night of the 15th of May, 1958, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Musketier of Groningen was in difficulty five miles north of Trevose Head, as her cargo of...
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1954, the police reported that a message had been received from the R.S.P.C.A. asking if the life-boat would put out to a heifer which had fallen over a cliff into Dulas...
Three Brothers, Victory Rose,Gem,Lead Us, Pilot Me,Faith Star,Venus,Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 21st of May, 1955, the local fishing fleet was at sea when the weather worsened, and at eight o'clock the No. 1 life-boat J. W. Archer, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with an...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...