LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 11.30 a.m. on 24th March, 1967, the local nurse told the honorary secretary that an expectant mother needed to be conveyed to hospital from Kilronan.
There was a strong south westerly wind with a rough sea. It was two...
Sea Sweeper
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...
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Lenrodian
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 12.25 in the afternoon of Sunday, the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been re- ceived from the pilot cutter Penlee that the motor vessel Lenrodian, of Sheer- ness, was...
Teasel
NOVEMBER 15TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 1.19 in the afternoon the St. Ives coastguard telephoned that a motor vessel was making for St. Ives Bay and required a pilot. A strong north wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, and...
Galaxy
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on gth September, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Galaxy (radio transmitting station "Radio London") had requested the services of the lifeboat to...
Cresswell
New Brighton, Cheshire.—About 7.45 on the morning of the 26th of Novem- ber, 1955, the port radar station reported that a message had been received from a steamer that a fishing boat was in distress and asking for help between C.19 and C.21...
A Speed-Boat
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 19th August a man told the honorary secretary that his speed-boat was anchored off the bathing pool, with her engine broken down, and that the weather was too bad for him to go off to her and fetch...
A Dell Quay Dory
Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.
In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...
A Minesweeper (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had been blown up by a mine, and the life-boat put out.
The sea was rough, and an air raid was in progress. Bombs fell near the life-boat. She searched for some hours...