LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clai
Dover, Kent. At 6.10 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares two miles off Leathercoat Point. A Dutch tug had gone to her help and had connected a tow line....
Fisher Lass
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.36 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the fishing vessel Fisher Lass of Sanday was overdue on passage from Kirkwall to Sanday. At 6.20 the life...
Gloxinia
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boy on board the motor vessel Gloxinia of North Shields had suspected appendicitis and needed medical attention...
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SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At noon on the 27th February, 1962, the local doctor received an urgent message to go to Inishmaan Island to attend a sick woman. As no other suitable boat was available, the doctor asked for the...
The S.S. Radstock
MAY 6TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At about 5 P.M. the life-boat coxswain heard a ship sounding “ V ” in morse on her whistle, ” I need assistance “, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 6.30 P.M. A strong northerly...
Loch Loy, of Nairn
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - CROMARTY. At 5.20 in the afternoon the Burghead coastguard reported the motor fishing vessel Loch Loy, of Nairn, in difficulties three miles northeast- by-north of Nairn. A south-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough...
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Solstad
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E.
of Montrose, and...
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A Steamer
28th October.
A steamer had wirelessed for help in a strong N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, but*the life-boat failed to find her.
She was found and helped by the Whitby motor life-boat, which stood by...