LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Racing Dinghy
Exmouth, Devon.—At 11.25 on the night of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported that a racing dinghy, with two men on board, had left Sidmoutb at 8.20 for Beer, but had not been seen since. A search was made by a Beer fishing boat...
HELM'S QUICK THINKING
WICKLOW | 20 JUNE
When a woman slipped and fell while stepping ashore from a moored boat, it was lucky that RNLI Helm Vinnie Mulvihill was at hand. Vinnie was tending the Wicklow lifeboat when he heard shouting and realised that...
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Integrity
At 2.15 A.M.
on the 24th January the Coastguard reported that a message had been received stating that a smack was ashore about two miles below the town, near Covehithe. The No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Gorry was smartly launched...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.25 on the nightof the 31st of Decem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a doctor had reported that a woman on Bardsey Island was serious- ly ill. The doctor asked if the life- boat would take...
Sea Eagle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1954, the police at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the motor cruiser Sea Eagle, of Norwich, with three young men on board, had run ashore in Breydon Water and...
Present Help
Islay, Hebrides.—At 3.40 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Present Help, with a crew of nine, was ashore at the northern end of Lismore Island. At 4.21 the life-boat...
Water Music
Dover, Kent.—At 2.18 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had been reported in difficulties in Wear Bay. At 2.30 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station, put out....
Virtala
INJURED ENGINEER At 8.5 p.m. on i2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Virtala had radioed for medical assistance for an injured engineer, reporting that the engines were out of...
Fishing Vessels (2)
THREE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED IN GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, as the weather was rapidly deteriorating, the honorary secretary asked the harbour master how many fishing boats were still at...
Bluebell, of Wick
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 1.40 a.m. on 22nd June, 1967, the fishing vessel Bluebell of Wick was reported ashore on Seal Skerry, South of Gairsay. The lifeboat The John Gellanty Hyndman slipped her moorings at 2.10 in a moderate south westerly...