LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Karina II
Poole, Dorset - At 1.20 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted off Studland bay. The life-boat Bassett Green slipped her moorings in a fresh to strong north easterly breeze...
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At 7.20 p.m. on 15th October, 1966, request was received for the life-boat to convey a patient to hospital on the mainland. At 8.15 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings. It was three hours before low water. The life-boat...
Marie Rose, Beatty, G.B.H., Red Herring, I'll Try and Bettsey
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 12 noon on 23rd April, 1967, when the life-boat Louise Stephens was at sea the coxswain noticed that conditions on the bar would be likely tocause difficulties for seven small boats fishing in the...
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As this issue of THE LIFEBOAT was going to press severe weather caused the flooding of the North Wales town of Towyn and the surrounding areas.
D class inflatable lifeboats from Rhyl, Llandudno and Flint (some 25 miles away...
An Aeroplane (115)
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between Sheringham and Blakeney. A light westerly wind was blowing, the...
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Wells, Norfolk.—26th November, 1938.
A vessel had been reported in distress off the Lynn Well Light-vessel, but nothing could be found. She may have been a derelict drifter from which theSkegness life-boat had rescued the...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—23rd October, 1939. The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and has last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M.
Two...
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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...
A Boat (1)
Kilmore, Wexford - At 11.15 p.m.
on 8th September, 1966, a small pleasure boat with one man on board was reported overdue. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 11.30. It was high water.
She found the...