LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Lee
HOLYHEAD.—On the morning of the 16th January, a rocket, apparently fired about seven miles N.W. of Holyhead, was seen by the coastguard. The crew of the Life-boat Thomas Fielden were called, and the boat was launched at 4.10 being token in...
Matfen
At midnight on the 8th of March the look-out man reported a vessel on shore.
A strong S.E. wind was blowing at the time and the sea was heavy. The Good Hope .was launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the...
Isabella
SKERRIES.—About 3 P.M. on the 16th April, the schooner Isabella, of Portmadoc, bound from London to Dundalk, was observed to part from her anchors and drive towards the rocks. A strong gale from the E.S.E. was blowing, and a heavy sea was...
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Torbay: On September 22, 1983, a young man fell 60ft into the sea when rocks crumbled beneath his feet on cliffs at Babbacombe. Two friends pulled the injured man from the sea, raised the alarm and then returned with blankets. Torbay's...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of Feb- ruary, 1954, the coastguard reported that a man was in the sea in French- man Bay, about one and three-quarter miles south of the Tyne. At 4.14 the life-boat Tynesider...
Stingray and Sultan
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 1.4 p.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two flares had been burned by the m.f.v. Stingray. There was a fresh north-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was almost high water. The...
A Rowing Boat
At 9.20 P.M.
on 15th May the Coastguard telephoned that four persons had put out in a rowing boat at three in the afternoon and that the boat had not returned and could not be seen. The crew of the Motor Life-boat William...
Sainte Catherine
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Shortly before midday on the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the French trawler Sainte Catherine of L'Orient, with a crew of nine, had gone ashore in Dungarvan Bay. At twelve...
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INJURED BOY BROUGHT BY SKIFF TO LIFE-BOAT Wicklow. At 6.58 on the evening of the 10th June, 1962, a member of the Garda told the coxswain that a boy had fallen fifty feet down a cliff three miles south of Wicklow. The life-boat /. W. Archer...
The Converted Motor Fishing Vessel Kathmar
Engine broken down RED FLARES fired by a vessel about a mile south of Boddin Point, four miles south of the lifeboat station, were reported to the honorary secretary of Montrose by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Tuesday March 28.