LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Molly
GUIDED TO BOAT BY PARAFFIN FLARES Hastings, Sussex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, two members of the local angling club reported that the motor boat Mahaba was overdue. There was a light northeast breeze with a smooth sea....
Survivors of 1899 Disaster
THE only two living survivors ofthe Aldeburgh life-boat disaster in 1899 were guests of honour at a dinner given by Ipswich supporters of the Institution to the present crew of the Aldeburgh life-boat, and their wives, at Ipswich on the...
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May Lily
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 31st of March, 1948, the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched at 5.35, to stand by the local motor fishing boat May Lily, during a south-easterly gale with a very heavy...
Lottie
RAMSGATE, KENT.—While endeavouring to return to the harbour, in a whole gale from E. and a heavy sea, on the 1st February, the smack Lottie struck the West Pier, and was driven to the back of it. Her anchor was let go but it did not hold,...
Ontario, of Liverpool
On Sunday, the 16th October, the steam-ship Ontario, of Liverpool, struck on the Hasborough Sand, on the Norfolk eoa,st, during a strong breeze from the W.N.W. The Caister life-boat went off to her assistance ; but her services were declined...
Dora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.12 in the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, with two persons on board, had cap- sized off Dumpton Gap, and four min- utes later the motor life-boat Prudential left her...
Two Yachts
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 7.55 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a yacht had capsized one mile north of Penmaen Head. The life-boat Lilly Wainwright was launched at 8.20 and on her way to the reported...
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Islay, Hebrides. At 8.15 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1960, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that he needed help urgently to convey a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. Owing to dense fog the air...
TRIMARAN UPTURNED
DUNGENESS | 4 APRIL
A man and woman were rescued from the upturned hull of a trimaran by the volunteer crew of RNLI Dungeness. Both casualties were balancing on the slippery surface when the Shannon...
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Dispatch
POOLBEG, Co. DUBLIN.—The smack Dispatch, of Bullock, an out port of Dublin, bound from Bullock to Dublin with granite stones, being in danger during a whole gale from the N.W., violent hail storms and a heavy sea, on the 30th of March, the...