LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Bullocks over cliff PORT ISAAC HONORARY SECRETARY received a request from HM Coastguard at 1606 on October 5, 1975, for the ILB to be launched to stand by teams attempting to rescue bullocks which had fallendown a cliff into a small cove at...
Fishing Vessels
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 13th of November, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that some local motor fishing vessels, which were out in a full south- south-easterly gale and a very rough sea, would be...
Cambrian
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of October, 1950, the Ramsgate coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Cambrian had asked for the help of the life-boat; and at 9.23 the Charles Cooper Henderson was launched...
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Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1954, the coxswain reported that the Warden of the Calf of Man, who had been stranded at Port St. Mary for six days by bad weather, was anxious to return to the island...
Vagabond
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 2.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of October, 1955, two boys told the coxswain that a motor boat was in difficulties near the rocks off Ballast Bank. Ten minutes later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out....
Kanedo
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 10.10 on the night of the 5th of August, 1957, cries for help could be heard from the motor cruiser Kanedo, which was moored close to the pier. A strong south-easterly gale was blowing and the sea was very rough....
Arctic Adventurer
TWO INJURED MEN At 3.53 a.m. on 8th December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Arctic Adventurer of Hull had two seriously injured men on board and another man who had died. The trawler was about 90 miles...
Two Dinghies
RESCUED MAN'S DOUBLE DONATIONS Skegness, Lincolnshire. The Skegness coastguard told the coxswain at 12.16 on the afternoon of Monday the 9th September, 1963, that a dinghy with two people on board had capsized off Jackson's Corner....
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 6.30 p.m. on 2nd February, 1970, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a man on Innisbofin island was seriously ill and required hospital treatment on the mainland.
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(Right) New York Harbor Festival 1982
(Right) New York Harbor Festival 1982: A team of Newquay, Cornwall, lifeboatmen lead the way in the first heat of the International Lifeboat Races on Independence Day, July 4.. - View image in PDF
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