LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue By Two Boys
A seventeen-year-old boy, Andrew Richards of Dolgellau, and his companion, sixteen-year-old Mark Heywood of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...
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HELICOPTER LANDS BOY AFTER CLIFF FALL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.40 on the evening of the llth May, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Treaddur Bay. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service...
Converted Life-Boat In Danger
AT 12.15, early on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Walney coastguard rang up the Barrow life- boat station to say that a man living in Bootle had reported that his small daughter had seen a small boat aground half a mile south of...
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Several Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 6th January, but soon after 7 A.M. the wind veered to N.E. and increased to a strong gale. Ten of the cobles were sufficiently near home to gain a shelter, but three were...
A Fishing Boat
On the return of a fishing-boat from the Broadsea fishing-ground on the 3rd August the crew reported that they had not seen anything of the Klondyke, another fishing-boat of Port Patrick, which had two men on board. As there was a rough sea...
Union Mars
Cargo vessel alert AT 0450 ON FRIDAY. October 16, 1987— the day Britain was hit by the worst storms for 200 years—the coaster Union Mars reported to coastguards that she had suffered steering failure three miles south south east of St...
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NOVEMBER 13TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 10.15 in the morning it was learned from the local doctor that a woman suffering from severe gastric troublemust be taken at once to hospital. As no steamer would run for two days...
Arundel Castle
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Gorton Light-vessel on the llth February, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 6.30 P.M., during a moderate gale and a rough sea. As the wind was blowing directly into the...
Chili
During foggy weather on 15th February the barque Chili, of Dunkirk, a large vessel of 1,800 tons, carrying a crew of twenty men, became embayed about one mile to the west of the Lizard and was within 150 fathoms of the shore. A messenger...
Josephine
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 a.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the Norwegian motor vessel Helene was reported to have a motor yacht in tow, and to have asked to be relieved of the tow at the Nab. The coastguard was not successful in finding a...