LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vondel
FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
John Smart
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—The steam-trawler John Smart, of Shields, on her return journey from fishing, stranded in Cambois Bay in thick weather early on the morning of the 8th February. In response to her...
Mary Ann
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 4th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties seven miles east of St. Agnes lighthouse. At 10.42 the...
Deo Gratias
Ilfracombe, Devon. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched with the district engineer on board for an engine trial in a moderate easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was...
A Motor Boat
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 28th August, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that some anxiety was felt for a local fisherman,who had last been seen to the westward of St. Abbs in his small motor boat....
LIFE-BOATS
The following additional life-boat services took place in May and August, 1969: No. 4 Life-boat Area Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 1.12 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Benacre...
Category: Services
A Rowing Boat
FIVE RESCUED FROM ROWING BOAT Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 23rd August, 1962, the Orlock coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Blackhead lighthouse that a rowing boat with a crew of five...
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Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Church bay. The coastguard rescue team and two helicopters were already searching.
The life-boat...
Yacht De Bries
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.33 in the evening of the 1st of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M.
Customs and Excise at Burnham-on- Crouch had reported four yachts on the Buxey Sands, and at eight o'clock the...
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MATERNITY CASE At 5.10 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretary that there was an expectant mother who needed to be transferred to hospital at South Uist. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbin No. 3 was launched at 5.45...