LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Alth, Shetlands. — At ten in the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, a doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him to the island of Foula where a woman was seriously ill. The weather was too bad for an ordinary boat to put out. The...
Millom Castle
On the same day that the first rescue of the crew of the Arctic Prince took place, the ketch Millam Castle, of Barrow, was seen making signals for help in St.
Tudwal's Outer Roads, Cardigan Bay.
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A Motor Launch and a Cabin Cruiser
ESCORT AND TOW FOR TWO BOATS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At nine o'clock on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor launch with two people on board which had put out to tow in a cabin...
A Single-Handed Rescue By a Skye Fisherman
THE Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, a fisherman of Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, for rescuing single-handed in a small rowing boat three fishermen whose boat had been wrecked. On the afternoon of the...
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Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
American Ship Torpedoed
Early in 1945 the German U-boats renewed their attacks on shipping close to the British coasts and one of the first ships to suffer was an American steamer which was torpedoed off South Wales. She was taken in tow, but broke away in a gale...
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Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...
Phoenix 194
OCTOBER 18TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. A south-westerly gale was blowing up the Bristol Channel, with the heaviest seas that had been seen for several years, when at 3.45 in the afternoon the naval officer-in-charge reported that phoenix 194 -...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 7.30 P.M. on the llth December, in answer to an urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishnaine, for a priest to administer last rites to a dying man. No other...
New beaches
RNLI lifeguards are heading north this Summer, and will be patrolling beaches in Lincolnshire for the first time. The beaches – in Skegness, Mablethorpe and Sutton on Sea – were covered by council-employed lifeguards. The local council will...
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