LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hopper Novia Magum
Dover, Kent.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the Dutch tug Loire had wirelessed that she had been towing the hopper Novia Magum, which had two men on board, but that the hopper...
Monbretia
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the coastguard rang up to pass on a report from the North Foreland Radio Station. The station had received a wireless message from the motor fishing boat Monbretia...
Douglas
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 17th of July, 1956, the Orlock coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at the Maidens.
At 8.30 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly was launched. There was a heavy swell...
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At 9.24 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a young man had been cut off by the tide at Whitby Hight light and that the lifesaving apparatus team were proceeding with cliff rescue gear. The honorary secretary alerted the...
Cheetah II
At 3.25 a.m. on igth June, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a red flare had been sighted some five miles from the coastguard lookout. The life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched at 3.52 in a gentle westerly wind and amoderate...
Angus Rose
Montrose, Angus - At 8.25 a.m. on I3th January, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported on the rocks between Scurdyness and Usan. The life-boat The Good Hope was launched at 8.45 in a gentle west south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was four...
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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 10.25 A.M. the naval officer in charge at Lerwick asked for the services of the life-boat to bring three wounded German airmen from Fair Isle, where their Heinkel bomber had been...
Glenmore
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.14 A.M. the coastguard reported a sailing barge aground on the Gunfleet Sands, four miles S.E. of Clacton pier. A moderate S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rather rough sea. The motor lifeboat...
Tommeliten
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—6th March, 1938. The Norwegian steamer Tommeliten,, of Bergen, had stranded during & dense fog, but refloated unaided on the next high tide.—Rewards, £6 175. 6d..
Convoy's Papers Saved
The Southend-on-Sea life-boat has rescued , from a tug, which had gone ashore in a dense fog, the commodore of a convoy - and all the convoy's papers..
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