LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SICK MAN BROUGHT TO MAINLAND Galway Bay. At 11.45 on the night of the 31st March, 1963, a report was received from the local doctor that a man was gravely ill and should be taken immediately to hospital. As no local boats were available, the...
Mignonne
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a motor boat was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie Point. At six o'clock the life-boat James and...
Kongo and Two Motor Fishing Vessels
YACHT AND TWO FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Bridlington, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 3rd August 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had been seen passing Spurn Point and...
Pleasure Boats
C class inflatable lands 112 passengers St Ives - South West Division The St Ives C class inflatable lifeboat can lay claim to some sort of a record after she ferried no less than 112 people ashore from local pleasure boats in a single...
Spaniard
JAN. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. the watchman at the life-boat station reported a steam trawler aground on the Trinity Sands.
breeze was blowing, with a slight sea.
A N.W.<...
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 12th September, the Life-boat Hannah Somerset went out to the assistance of several fishing cobles which had been overtaken by a sudden gale from the N., accompanied by a heavy sea, and were in great...
Helena
Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on 2nd October, 1965, Shoreham coastguard told the motor mechanic that red flares had been sighted west of Newhaven harbour. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 7.25, two and a hah0 hours after high...
Mary
FAULTY PUMP At 5.24 p.m. on 27th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been fired by a trawler two miles off Bury Holm in a southerly direction. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 5.37 in a...
L’Appel-de-Lemar
MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf about half a mile...
Joan and Mary
JULY 20TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the motor fishing boat Joan and Mary had gone out with a crew of three. As by evening she had not returned and no news had been received of another boat which had gone out to look for her,...