LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ANOTHER SNOW-BOUND TOWN HELPED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—On the 14th of March, 1947, when the Portpatrick district was snowbound and food was short, the motor life-boat Jeanie Spiers went to Stranraer to fetch bread and other provisions....

DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL At 4.55 p.m. on 7th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Owers lightvessel and a request was made for the use of the life-boat to take out a doctor. At 5.15...

EXPLOSION ON MOTOR VESSEL At 10.23 a-m- on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that the motor vessel Frederick T. Everard was reported to be in distress following an explosion on board. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was...

On the morning of the 7th December the Lowestoft sailing trawler W.E.H. ran ashore on a sandbank formed at the North Pier extension, while returning from the fishing grounds. A whole E.N.E. gale was blowing and heavy seas broke over the...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.20 in the afternoon of the 2nd of October, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat at anchor, three and a half miles to the eastward, was sig- nalling for help. The motor life-boat Cyril...

FEBRUARY 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON.

ESSEX. At about 7.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that information had been received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel that a vessel to the W.N.W. was sounding S.O.S. on her siren. A...

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