LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.A.F. Rescue Launch No. 164
MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P.M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was...
Four Girls
YACHT'S CREW SEE FLARES FROM FISHING BOAT Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.47 on the afternoon of the 24th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported west of White Nothe, Ringstead...
Miranda
At 9 A.M. on the 27th February, the coastguard reported that a sailing trawler in Yarmouth roads had had her sails carried away, and was flying a distress signal. A fresh S.S.E. gale was blowing, and the sea was very rough on the bar and in...
Rocquaine
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 17th of December, 1950, the coastguard said that a ship four miles east of Lowestoft was in need of help.
At 5.30 the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched, in a fresh west-north-...
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 2.50 p.m. on i6th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea seven miles north-north-west of Portpatrick.
The life-boat Edward Z....
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Galway Bay.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 7th of March, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to Inishere to attend a maternity case. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out, with...
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HAD APPENDICITIS At 11.30 a.m. on yth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had appendicitis and needed medical treatment. There was a...
Phoenix 121
AUGUST 31ST. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 5.55 in the evening the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the naval and military authorities requested the services of the lifeboat to take out a relief crew and provisions to one of the caissons of...
Therese
YACHT ESCORTED UP RIVER New Brighton, Cheshire. At 11.40 on the morning of the 22nd June, 1963, a message was received that a yacht needed help north of Rock lighthouse, and ten minutes later the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at...