LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Britannia
Margate, Kent.—At about 5 P.M. on the 25th October the coastguard reported that a small fishing boat had broken down and was drifting ashore east of Margate jetty. A very heavy N.W. squall was blowing, with a roughsea. The motor life-boat...
Ibis
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 2.30 on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore at Great Per- haver Beach. At 2.50 the life-boat C.D.E.C. put out in a calm sea, with a light southerly...
Marjellen
Cromer, Norfolk.—-At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 4th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that he thought a yacht was flying distress signals two miles east of the coastguard station, and at 6.25 the No. 1 life-boat Henry...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1953, the Northern Lighthouse Board reported that a man in the Barrahead light- house was ill and needed immediate medical attention. The weather was too bad for the...
Lead Us and Faith Star
Whltby, Yorkshire.—During the morn- ing of the 4th of March, 1954, the weather worsened while the local fishing fleet was at sea. All the boats returned to the harbour before the harbour bar became dangerous, except the Lead Us and Faith...
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HELP FOR PATIENT At 6.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young girl was suffering from acute appendicitis, and that no other suitable boat was available to take her to the mainland. There was...
A Fishing Vessel
STANDING BY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 9.50 a.m. on i8th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in distress south of C 2 buoy. There was a moderate north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At noon on the 17th of November, 1960, the life- boat coxswain received a telephone message that a sick person on the island of Rhum needed hospital treatment urgently. There was a strong south- westerly wind with a...
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.15 on the morn- ing of the 6th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man had collapsed aboard the Owers lightvessel, and that the services of a doctor were required. At 3.40 the...
Tjoba
Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.39 on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Tjoba of Groningen was making heavy weather two miles west of Portland Bill. When the life-boat Frank...