LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 9 P.M. on the 24th January a vessel was observed on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat, Covent Garden, were mustered, and in very cold snowy weather the boat was launched. The wind was moderate, but the sea was heavy on the...
Viscount
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATS ON FLOOD TIDE Cromer, Norfolk. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 24th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor vessel was thought to be aground between Mundesley and...
A Motor Boat (1)
Fowey, Cornwall - At 4.27 p.m. on 18th May, 1966, a woman informed the honorary secretary that she and her husband had been in a motor boat which capsized in Lantio Bay, but they had managed to scramble ashore. The lifeboat Deneys Reitz was...
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Ilfracombe, Devon-At 8.45 p.m.
on 2nd June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliffs at Tors Walk, Brandy Cove. The cliff rescue team had lowered a doctor to assist him. The...
Alma
DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddonness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the barque...
Pilot Me and Gem
FISHING BOATS ESCORTED IN Whitby, Yorkshire. — Early in the morning of February 19th, 1947, two fishing boats, the Pilot Me and the Gem, put to sea in moderate weather. Later the sea became heavy, making it very dangerous for boats to enter...
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Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at Walls rang up to say there was a case of serious illness on the island of Papa Stour, and the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him to the...
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HELP FOR ORPHANAGE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4.25 p.m. on 27th February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary's wife, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that four youths from a local orphanage were missing. At 5.25, on...
A Motor Cruiser
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 3.45 on the after- noon of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that he had a white object under observation, which might be a capsized yacht, and advised the launching of the life-boat...
Nancy of Teignmouth
On the 9th April, this boat was again called into use. The brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, was observed to part her cables, and go ashore at the Horse Bank; the life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to the aid of her crew, which...