LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the 19th of January, 1954, a motor-vessel passed a message to the life-boat station through Portpatrick airport, asking that a doctor be sent to the island of Rhum. The bad weather had put the normal means of...
Kestral
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1949, the life-boat coxswain saw a motor boat drifting down the river Tay. There • was a man on board, waving his jacket. At 4.18 the life- boat Mono was launched in a...
A Yacht
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 15th of September, 1950, a resident telephoned the harbour master that a yacht was in difficulties. At 6.20 the life-boat Dunleary II was launched in a smooth sea...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 11.50 p.m. on i6th December, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient required hospital treatment and requested that the life-boat be used. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 3...
Empress
Workington, Cumberland - At midnight on 2nd December, 1968, the coxswain reported that a fishing boat was overdue. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX slipped her moorings at 12.20 in a moderate easterly wind with a smooth sea. The...
Children's Friend
North Sunderland, Northumberland - At ii a.m. on 6th May, 1967, the life-boat mechanic informed the honorary secretary that heavy seas were breaking across the harbour mouth and that the motor fishing vessel Children's Friend was making...
Lily
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At about 6.40 P.M. on the 4th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that flares of distress had been seen to the N.W.
A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Oldham...
Douglass's
During a strong northerly gale with a ground swell, on the 15th October, anxiety was felt for the Douglass's, of North Sunderland, which was the only fishing boat at sea. She could be seen hauling her lines and would not be able to make...
Makrojak
Hastings, Sussex. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 6th of August, 1949, the life-boat motor mechanic saw a yacht dismasted three miles to the south-west, and the life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 3.5 in a moderate...
Fife's Own
The motor fishing boat Fife's Own put to sea on the night of the 16th July for long line fishing. The weather changed, and by noon next day a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain.
A watch was kept...