LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thurso Naming
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother named the new Thurso life-boat—-a 48-foot 6-inch Solent class boat—on llth August, by the Hotel Quay, Scrabster Harbour.
Named The Three Sisters, she was paid for by an anonymous...
Category: Inaugurations
A Dinghy (4)
SEARCH FOR TWO BOYS IN DINGHY Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.50 on the night of the 2nd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the harbour master at Newquay had reported that two boys, who had left Newquay at 8.30 in the...
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PATIENT TAKEN OFF ISLAND ESf NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 8.20 on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Baily lighthouse keeper that a suspected case...
H.M Trawler Rutlandshire
DEC. 29TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the evening the signal station reported rockets east of Filey Brigg.
A N.N.W. wind was blowing, of gale force at times, with a very heavy sea. The motor...
The S.S. Faraday
MARCH 26TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 8.10 P.M. the St. Anns Head coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Faraday, of London, had been bombed and was on fire one and a half miles W. of St. Anns, and the motor life-boat...
The S.S. Arthur
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the morning of the 27th May information was received that a vessel in the vicinity of Haile Sand was firing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Richard were summoned, and at 4.30 the...
Marie, of Boustead
At daylight on the 20th Oct., signals of distress were observed from i this station, shown by the schooner Marie Boustead, of Nantes, which, with foremast and maintop-masts gone, was riding at anchor by one cable only on a rocky i lee shore....
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Galway Bay. At noon on the 5th of March, 1959, a woman living on Aran Island, who had just received news of the death of her father, asked if the life-boat would take her to the mainland as no other transport was available. At 12.15 the life...
The German Ship Clivia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 a.m. on 6th May, 1967, news was recieved that the Solomon Browne would be needed to take a sick man to hospital from the German ship Clivia which was approaching Mount's Bay in a choppy sea and poor weather. At...
Sea Dawn
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 6.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1967, news was received that the ketch Sea Dawn had engine failure 14 miles north west of the Corsewall lighthouse. The life-boat The Jeanie slipped her moorings at 6.59 in a gentle...