LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat
Buckle, Banffshire.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a small sailing boat was in difficulties three and a quarter miles north-north-west of Buckie. At 3.32 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow...
'We were in trouble ...'
When car ferry Princess Victoria sank in heavy seas off Northern Ireland on 31 January 1953, Billy McAllister was working onboard
Massive waves were pushing and hitting, sending her [Princess...
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Theodor
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the night of the 29th January, while a strong wind was blowing from E.N.E. the weather being squally and the sea heavy, an intimation was received that the services of the Life-boat were needed. The crew and helpers...
Spinal Board
DonnchúWhen a climber was seriously injured in a fall at Aberdour on 9 February, Kinghorn’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Frederick Robertson was on the scene within 15 minutes. The crew requested the help of an RAF helicopter to get the man...
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Merry Golden Hind
Margate, Kent. — At 12.46 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was drifting four miles to the north-east of the lookout, and at 1.23 came another message that she was now flying a...
Continued
Lifeboat Services Continued 22, Feb 3,10,13 Atlantic 21: Dec 8 (twice), Jan 21 and Feb 10 Red Bay, Co Antrim C class: Dec 13, Jan 15 and 23 Redcar, Cleveland Atlantic 21: Nov 10, 24, Dec 12,28, 29 (twice), Jan 16 (twice), 18, 31 and Feb 15...
Category: Services
Flower o' Mary
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...
Gifts from Crews
ON 26th October last, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat rescued the crew of six of the German schooner Kate Runne, and also helped to save the vessel. The Crew has given the Institution a donation of £8 18s. 1(M. out of the salvage...
Category: Donations
A Fishing Boat (2)
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 8.15 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1961. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local fishing boat from Milford Haven could not be found in the harbour, but that a small boat with two people on...