LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 11.40 a.m. on iyth March, 1967, the the local nurse told the honorary secretary that a man who was seriously ill needed to be taken to hospital on the mainland.
The man was embarked and the life-boat Mabel Marion...
The Owers Lightship
NOVEMBER 9TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard passed on a message from Owers Lightship asking the life-boat to come out to the lightship and take a sick man ashore. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Flora Dora
JUNE 30TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE At 5.35P.M. a message was received from the Wick coastguard that an auxiliary fishing boat was in distress six miles E.N.E. of Dunnet Head. The wind was light and variable and the sea smooth. At 5.45 P.M....
Cormorant
Two saved from sinking fishing boat Cullercoat's Atlantic was called out to the fishing boat Cormorant when she began taking water about two miles to the east of the station on 31 March 1996.
It took less than five...
Delabole
CLOVELLY.—At 5.30 A.M. on the 15th of September, the Life-boat on this station was launched during a heavy le from the N., and rescued the crew, consisting of three men, from the smack Delabole, of Fowey, bound from Par to Swansea with a...
Torbay Lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant
Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a... - View image in PDF
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Buizerd
MARCH 1 3TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
Shortly after 1 A.M. the Kettleness coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel ashore on Kalder Steel. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a slight sea and heavy rain....
Dazzler
At about 7 P.M. on the 20th November, during a strong gale from the N.W., signals of distress were seen in the direction of Wexford Bar. The same Lifeboat was promptly manned, and proceededto the spot, and found that the fishing yawl Dazzler...
Bertha
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Flares in the direction of the "Scroby Elbow" Sand were seen by men on the look out in foggy weather on the morning of the 21st January, and they at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Covent Garden. At 7...
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus—On the morning of the 30th January the bar off the harbour entrance was very unsafe, owing to a very heavy easterly swell.
Eight of the local fishing boats had not returned, and the motor life-boat John and...