LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maria Dolores
FISHERMAN WAVED At 10.25 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Maria Dolores, which had a crew of three, appeared to need help off Saltscar and that one of the fishermen was waving. At...
Britta
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.40 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of messages re- ceived from the Trinity House pilot cutter and from the Sunk lightvessel that a large motor vessel...
Ashdene
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 4.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 1960, a telephone message was received from the owners of the coaster Ashdene that she needed help some sixteen miles south-south-east of Wick. There was a moderate north...
Kunishi
FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...
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H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
•—At 7.59 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106 had run aground off Spittal Point, and at 8.20 the life-boat J. and W. was...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 29th of May, 1958, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient urgently needing surgical help to the mainland.
At 3.40 the life-boat William and...
Virtue Petit
Ballycotton, Cork - At 2.50 a.m. on 3rd September, 1966, the Garda informed the coxswain that the trawler Virtue Petit, of Milford Haven, was steaming to Ballycotton with a seriously injured man on board. The life-boat Ethel Mary left her...
Cicely
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 6.40 P.M. on the 17th December, 1938, flares were seen four miles W.N.W. of Peel. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and visibility was very poor.
The motor life-boat Helen Sutton was...
Lifeboat Services from Page 82
from page 82 ties, exhausted by the strength of the tide and the coldness of the water. He towed them to Cowloe Rocks, which were much nearer than the shore, and told them to clamber over the top to the shoreward side while he paddled his...
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