LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Torbay, Devon. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man had fallen down to the foot of the cliffs at Sharkham Point. At 12.45 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left...
Bottom Left Lifeboat Crew Member M Black
Bottom left Lifeboat crew member m black oilskins, sou'wester and Captain Ward's cork lifejacket. - View image in PDF
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Terra Nova
. — A dismasted vessel was observed about 2J miles S.S.W. of Johnshaven, on the 17th March. The wind was then blowing a light breeze from S.8.W., the sea was rough and the weather thick and very cold. The Life -boatMeanwell of Gleribervie...
H.M. Trawler Dunraven Castle
JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...
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INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 10.38 on the morning of the 2nd August, 1962, the honorary secretary at Lowestoft passed on to the honorary secretary at Aldeburgh a report from the Lowestoft port medical officer...
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Galway Bay, County Galway.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1957, the local doctor reported that a woman had been attacked by a cow and had been seriously injured.
He asked if the life-boat would...
Provider and Daisy
The s.s.
Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...
Ees Teyr
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6.15 on the evening of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumaris had an engine failure and was in need of assistance three miles...
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Skin diver missing AT 1335 ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1987, Humber Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary at Fiamborough lifeboat station, that a skin diver was missing off Fiamborough Head.
He agreed to an immediate...
A Vampire Jet Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...