LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The British Tanker Esso Canterbury
Valentia, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m. on 2nd March, 1966, the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the British tanker Esso Canterbury and that her estimated time of...
Two Boats
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 10th August it was reported by visitors that a small fishing boat had not returned, and was believed to be fog-bound about one and a half miles S.E. of Bembridge. The Motor Life-boat Langham was launched in a smooth...
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 6.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had wire- lessed that she had a sick man on board.
So at 7.3 the life-boat Ann...
Francis M. Dee
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1953.
the coastguard rang up to say that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported that a man in a cabin cruiser which had broken down, had made fast to...
The Russian S.S. Smolensk
ANKLE SET ON PASSAGE Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.18 a.m.
on i9th August, 1965, a message from a doctor was received saying that a man on board the Russian S.S. Smolensk of Riga had broken a leg and required a...
Donna and Pandora
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, it was learnt that the yacht Donna had capsized in the bay off Monks- house. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.55 in a moderate sea. There was a...
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Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
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HISTORIC LIFEBOATS
In the winter issue, we listed some places to see historic lifeboats. There are a lot of them out there, and we couldn’t mention them all, but some of you wrote in with further...
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