LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Salmon Coble
Aberdeen. At 11.25 a-rn. on lyth February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a salmon coble appeared to be in difficulties off Aliens. There was a moderate breeze from the north by east with a rough, confused sea. The...
Jamaica
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the steam trawler Jamaica of Fleetwood, with a crew of twelve, was ashore on the north-west boulders on the south side of...
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Galway Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1959, a request was received from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to convey a child, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inishmaan Island to the...
Impudence
Dover, Kent. At 11.35 on the morn- ing of the 12th of April, 1960, the lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at high water on a routine exercise with the district inspector on board. There was a fresh south-westerly wind and a rough...
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SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At noon on the 27th February, 1962, the local doctor received an urgent message to go to Inishmaan Island to attend a sick woman. As no other suitable boat was available, the doctor asked for the...
Whaler Diana, of Hull
On the 19th Oct., during one of the worst gales experienced on this coast for years, the steam-whaler Diana, of Hull, was observed stranded on the Slate Run. The wind was blowing a perfect hurricane from the north at the time. The life-boat...
Coastal Life
coAstAL LIFe Rapture of the deep scuba diving is fraught with dangers, but each year thousands of adventurers find that the rewards far outweigh the risks.
Bethany Hope discovers the appeal of diving close to home ‘You...
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Telegraph, of Port Issac
The Albert Edward life-boat at Pad- stow saved the crew of 3 men of the smack Telegraph, of Port Isaac, which had stranded on the Doom Bar.
Charles Challoner
FLEET WOOD.—On the night of the 18th September the barque Charles Ohattoner, of Fleetwood, bound for that port from Quebec, with timber, was endeavouring to make the harbour in tow of a steam-tug; but the steamer was not sufficiently...
London Pride
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. — At 8.45, on the evening of the 25th of September, 1950, the lighthouse keeper reported a message that a member of the crew of the new tanker London Pride, which was carrying out trials, was in need of hospital...