LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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GIRL ON CLIFF Douglas, Isle of Man. At 8.40 p.m.
on 25th May, 1964, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a girl had climbed down a cliff below the entrance to Howstrake holiday...
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire - At 5.25 p.m. on 26th October, 1969, the coastguard reported that a rock climber was stranded on the cliffs just south of Buchanness lighthouse.
At 6.24 the life-boat James Mariska Joicey was...
A Small Boat (5)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. At five in the afternoon three men left Burtonport in a small boat for Arranmore, but they had not arrived by nine o’clock. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
Glynwood
-Prior to the service rendered by the Rhoscolyn Life-boat, Mr. WILLIAMS had been engaged for many hours at Holyhead with the life-saving apparatus, other vessels being in imminent danger there. At 3.45 A.M. the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was...
Darnet
On the evening of the llth July the ketch Darnet, of Maldon, was anchored between the Knocksand Bank and the Main when she parted from her anchor and drifted on to the sand. Later she floated off the sand, but went on to the Main near...
Ocea (2)
Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties just north of...
Kastag
Swanage, Dorset.—About 5.50 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide at Kimmeridge Ledge, and that a yacht was ashore there. Five minutes later the life-boat Edmund...
Fishing Cobles (2)
The wind on the 12th April suddenly increased to the strength of a gale, and the sea became very heavy, when the fishing cobles were at sea. As their return would be attended with considerable risk to'those on board, the Life-boat was...
Vesta, of Whitby
On the 23rd March, during a heavy squall, the brig Vesta, of Whitby, was seen to part her cable and to founder between the Mumbles and Swansea Pier. The life-boat, was quickly launched, and succeeded in taking from the vessel's rigging...
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Blyth, Northumberland. At 10.30 on the morning of the 14th October, 1961, the Blyth police informed the honorary secretary that a body had been seen floating in Colleywell Bay, and that as it was nearly low water no small boat could put out...