LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Punt
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.10 onthe morning of the 15th of May, 1954, the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to welcome the return of H.M. the Queen in...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a man in difficulties on the cliffs at Ballard Down. A cliff rescue team had been sent to the...
Selectivity
Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 9.40 on the morning of the llth of Novem- ber. 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Selectiv- ity, on passage from Glasgow to Swansea, had a sick man on board.
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PARACHUTE FLARES LIGHT CLIFFS EN SEARCH Aberdeen. At 9.29 on the evening of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a request from the police for help in searching for a man reported to have fallen over the...
Morning Rays, Amity and Copieux
MARCH 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 10.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel burning flares one and a half miles N.W. by W., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.30. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
The Liberty Ship Helen Hunt Jackson, of Los Angeles
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT.
Notice was received that a doctor would be required on board a steamer which was making for the Downs, and at nine at night the Liberty ship Helen Hunt Jackson, of Los Angeles, arrived. A...
S.S. Laird’s Castle, Iago and Mr. Linthorst Homan
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 6.55 A.M. the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S.. Laird’s Castle, of Glasgow, had been in collision. Her position was given as about one mile west of Sanda Island. A moderate S....
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 530 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CBE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement Manager: DAVID BRANN...
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A Speed Boat
Mechanical failures Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat crew were mustered on the evening of Sunday July 22, 1984, after Clyde Coastguard had been told that a speedboat was seen to be drifting towards the main channel between Hamilton Rock and...
Hopper No. 2, of Preston (1)
NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...