LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British Diligence
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker entering St. Ives Bay was sig- nalling for a doctor. No other boat was available, so at 2.5, in fine weather and a calm sea, the...
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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...
Zippalong
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.25 on the morning of the 1st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Holdernidd had wirelessed that she was towing the motor yacht Zippalong, of Boston, and was making for Cromer. She asked if the life...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Margate, Kent.—At 3.22 on the after- noon of the 7th of August, 1952, the Reculvers coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was being blown out to sea one mile east of Reculvers. As no boat was available at Herne Bay, the life-boat North...
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Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 14th of Novem- ber, 1952, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from a doctor on Bardsey Island asking for the life-boat to take a seriously sick...
Rinda, of Oslo
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a man had fallen over- board from the tanker Rinda, of Oslo, off Rock Ferry, and at 9.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett...
Aridity
Walmer, Kent.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1953, ship- ping agents in Dover asked if the life- boat -would take a doctor to the motor vessel Aridity, of London, anchored off Deal, as a man in her had been flung across her...
Matelot
Dover, Kent.—At 6.27 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1953, the Sand- gate coastguard rang up to say a yacht had burnt a red flare one and a half miles east of Folkestone pier and was making for Dover. At 6.44 the life- boat The Lord...
A Small Boat
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH PIER.—On Sunday morning, 2nd September, ' three young men put off in a small boat from Sunder land for a pleasure trip. When they started the wind was blowing from the N.W. and the sea was choppy, but afterwards the...
Olveaga
HILBRE ISLAND.—A fisherman, observing a large steamer stranded on the East Hoyle Bank, on the morning of the 27th October, reported the circumstance,circumstance, and at 8.24 the Life-boat Admiral Biggs was launched. A moderate gale was...