LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eryl
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 12.20 p.m. on 1st October,, 1966, a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off the boathouse.
The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 12.50 in a fresh north westerly wind, gusting to...
Cuyuni
BAU,TWAI,TEE, Co. DOWH.—On Sunday morning the 30th September, at about half- past four o'clock the Coastguard watchman observed a dim light in the direction of the Skull Martin Rock. The Coastguard galley was immediately manned and went...
The S.S. May
At 1.15 A.M. on 23rd November a telephone message was received stating that the lights of a vessel ashore off Ballyfrenis Point were seen. As this is a very dangerous part of the coast, the Motor Life-boat William and Mary proceeded to...
The Humber Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Humber lightvessel to Grimsby, as no other boat was available....
The S.S. Ardlethen
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat Hearts of OaJc was launched at 12.7 p.m.
on the 17th March, signal guns having been heard in the direction of the Hasborough Sands apparently fired from the Would Light-Vessel. A dense fog...
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Humber, Yorkshire - At 1.50 p.m.
on 30th April, 1966, a motorist told the coxswain superintendent that a small aircraft had crashed into the sea about two miles north of Spurn. There was a gentle south-easterly wind and a...
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Galway Bay.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the doctor at Inishmore telephoned that a man there was in urgent need of hospital treat- ment at Galway and asked if the life- boat would take him to the...
Eight Bells
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE FAILURE Arbroath, Angus. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 5th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Eight Bells of Arbroath had engine faiJure off Auchmithie....
Shamrock Cruiser II
Ramsgate., Kent.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 15th of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor cruiser, flying a distress signal, seemed to be drifting. At 5.22 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...
Das Wappen von Bremen (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...