LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Longhope, Orkneys - At 11.15 a.m.
on 2 ist January, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient needed urgent hospital treatment.
The life-boat T.G.B., with the patient on board,...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 9.45 a.m.
on the 16th May, 1967, it was noted that five fishing cobles from Staithes were still at sea and the strong northerly gale which had blown up was making conditions at Staithes harbour...
Loss of Memory
THE following story comes from the North of England. Two gentlemen were so convinced that each was accurate in a certain statement that they had a small wager on the result.
Naturally one lost, and our Organising Secretary...
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Lizzie Trenberth
PADSTOW.—On the morning of the 29th March the schooner Lizzie Trenberth, of Fowey, was seen about three miles N.W.
of Trevose Head. She was under close reefed sails, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.W. and the sea...
Bryter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 21 st of September, 1953, the life-boat coxswain saw a yacht two and a half miles east-south- east of the pier which appeared to be in difficulties. At 1.35 the life-boat Greater London...
Amy
Criccieth, Caernarvonshire.—At 5.57 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1954, the Abersoch coastguaid tele- phoned that a fishing boat was drifting and making heavy weather off St.
Tudwal's Island. At 6.7 the...
Marie
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 19th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. A vessel had wirelessed that about seventeen and a half miles south of the Owers Lightvessel she had passed a motor cruiser which had broken down...
Mayflower
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 8.26 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man at Whitburn had reported a fishing coble flying a distress signal two and a half miles off Whitburn.
At nine...
Cap Lizard
SAILS WERE TORN Exmouth, South Devon. At 1.30 p.m.
on 4th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor in rough seas and near gale force north-easterly winds close to...
'A fantastic legacy'
A new building, 150 years of lifesaving and the naming of a lifeboat: all historic milestones celebrated at Porthdinllaen Lifeboat Station, Gwynedd, in the Autumn.
BBC Broadcaster David Dimbleby was guest of honour at the...
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