LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. On the evening of the 16th of February, 1944, three men came ashore in their own punt from a hopper of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and anchored in the harbour. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
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An icy plunge When Portsmouth's volunteers heard that a man was trapped in icy waters below a pier, they knew they were in a race against timePolice officers had been called to Portsmouth's South Marine Parade Pier on the evening of...
Bolivar (1)
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from...
Marguerite (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
Frej (1)
Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...
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Galway Bay.—At 11.30 in the morn- ing of the 25th of February, 1949, a doctor asked for the help of the life- boat to take an urgent maternity case to the mainland. No other suitable boat was available, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was...
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Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.26 on the evening of the llth of April, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the light- keepers at the Breakwater lighthouse had signalled that they had recovered the body of a twelve-year-old girl from the sea at...
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Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.
At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...