LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...
Marie McClements
FISHING VESSEL AGROUND ON ROCKS Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.42 on the morning of the 29th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Marie McClements of Portavogie was aground near the South Rock. The...
Loch Dunvegan
CARGO VESSEL ON FIRE BELOW DECKS Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 5.30 on the morning of Wednesday the llth September, 1963, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary advis- ing that the 700-ton cargo vessel Loch Dunvegan, loaded...
Rodent
Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on- Sea, Essex. At 4.20 p.m. on 2yth November, 1965, the Clacton coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that red flares had been seen north-east of Mouse. The Clacton-on-Sea...
Nimble-Iki
TRIMARAN OVERDUE Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 3 p.m.
on 10th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trimaran named Nimble-Iki was overdue.
There was a thick fog with a smooth sea...
South African (1)
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 5.37 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had launched a boat to pick up a boy in a dinghy which had drifted past the lightvessel, but that both boats were now...
Scimitar
DRIFTING BROADSIDE Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 1.36 p.m. on gth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a yacht two miles south-west by south of the coastguard look-out was dismasted. There was a fresh westerly breeze with...
Monthly Figures.
At the end of each month the Institution brings out a leaflet with the figures of launches and lives rescued up to date, Copies of .this leaflet will be sent to any honorary secretaries who would like to have them for distribution..
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Westward Ho, of Torquay
DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.5 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that a vessel, anchored about a quarter of a mile north of Brixham breakwater, was making distress signals. A northerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough...