LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 7.30 P.M. on the llth December, in answer to an urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishnaine, for a priest to administer last rites to a dying man. No other...
A Small Speed Boat
Swanage, Dorset.— At 9.5 P.M. on the 14th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse.
The weather was fine and the sea was...
Forward
Holyhead. Anglesey,—At 12.35 in the afternoon, on the 4th of July, 1950, the coastguard reported that red rockets were being fired by a fishing vessel off Rhoscolyn. A light easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 2nd of January, 1951, the local fishing coble Premier, which had put out that morning, had not returned. As the weather was getting worse, anxiety was felt for her...
Holliwell
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.19 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1954.
the coastguard telephoned that the Mid-Barrow lightvessel had wirelessed that the motor cruiser Holliwell, which had broken down with a crew of...
Venus II
PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At one o' clock on the morning of the 18th March, 1963, a message was received by the honorary secretary that there was a patient on the Isle of Rhum who needed a doctor. As no other suitable boat was available,...
Sheena
CHANCE MEETING SAVES DINGHY SAILOR Hastings, Sussex. On Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, while returning from a visit to Bexhill Regatta, the life-boat M.T.C.
intercepted a motor boat towing the sailing dinghy Sheena with a...
Brand X
BROKEN SHAFT At 5.46 p.m. on i4th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was flying distress signals about half a mile off Westgate bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. TJ) was launched at 6.5 in...
Cover Picture
After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF
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