LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about midnight on the 16th September, 1938, it was learned that a man—a member of the local committee—was very ill with appendicitis, and that it was important that he be taken to hospital at Penzance...
Only Two
Padstow, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 29th July the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress in Constantine Bay. A strong S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The No. 2 motor life-boat...
A Small Rowing Boat (1)
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — On the afternoon of the 15th September the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was returning to harbour after her quarterly exercise when a small rowing boat was seen near Foreland Point. Owing to cross currents this...
Robine and Consort
On the morning of the 20th February, the motor fishing boat Consort, of Girvan, was seen lying at anchor about five hundred yards north of the harbour. A mod- erate S.S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. A watch was kept on the boat, and...
The Cabin-Cruiser Diana II
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 5.50 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the St. John Ambulance Brigade rang up to say that their motor boat Flying Christine was going to the help of two people marooned on a rock in Moulin Huet Bay and...
Edna
Moelfre, Anglesey. — About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of May, 1953, a message was received from Benllech that a local rowing boat with a man and five children on board was in difficulties off Red Wharf Bay and was being...
River Spey
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 6.10 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the trawler River Spey, of Milford Haven, which had a crew of twelve, was leaking badly and needed help fifteen miles...
Fortis
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...
Dorothy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard pasted on a message from a steamer that the yacht Dorothy, of Colchester, was in need of help, two miles east of the South-west Bawdsey buoy. At 7.53 the No...