LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter from Page Iii
Notes of the Quarter from page III Elmy put out to the help of a fishing boat. The fishing boat's crew were taken aboard the lifeboat, but as she was returning to harbour the lifeboat capsized with the loss of the whole lifeboat crew and...
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Reliance
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1957, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel on passage from Deganwy to Fleetwood had engine trouble and was drifting near the Morecambe Bay lightveseel. She...
Sea Venture III and Espardarte, and Cabin Cruiser Alcidan
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...
Susan
Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.55 on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Susan was burning flares off Cudden Point. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing with a choppy sea, and...
The Helwick Lightvessel.
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1957, the Mumbles honorary secretary tele- phoned that there was a sick man on the Helwick lightvessel. At 6.59 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched, with a doctor on...
Ruan
Swanage, Dorset - At 9.57 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Yewforest had reported that she was standing by the yacht Ruan which was in difficulties 14 miles south west of Anvil point...
Dinas
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 7.50 p.m. on 27th May, 1966, the coxswain was informed that the trawler Dinas of Fleetwood had a badly injured man on board who required a doctor. There was a moderate northerly wind with a corresponding sea. It...
Blyth: CHOIR HITS TOP NOTE FOR KIT
Sing United entertained a sell-out audience at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle, in their first show together as a choir – raising a remarkable £1,339 to help save lives at sea. Pupils from Stocksfield Avenue Primary School and Stormy...
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A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.0 in the evening, on the 25th of June, 1951, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy was reported in difficulties and drifting two miles south-west of Whiting Bay. At 6.17 the life-boat Sir David...
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Stronsay, Orkney-At i.io p.m. on 27th November, 1966. the doctor on Sanday asked the honorary secretary for the services of the life-boat to convey a woman suffering from acute appendicitis to hospital at Kirkwall. At 1.35 the lifeboat The...