LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1958, the local doctor asked the acting honorary secretary if the life-boat would take an expectant mother from Inish- maine Island to the mainland. There was an...
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Galway Bay. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1960, the local doctor asked if the life-boat could take a six-year-old child with suspected appendicitis to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other suitable...
Windsor Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Windsor Rose was trying to make har- bour in worsening weather...
Undine
DINGHY TAKEN ABOARD At 4.25 p.m. on 22nd July, 1965, a dinghy was reported to have capsized off the Cawsand. At 4.33 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse put out. There was a light south-westerly wind, the sea was choppy and the tide...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 12.25 P-mon loth May, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the lifeboat could be used to convey an urgent surgical case from Jura Island to Islay, as the weather was too bad for the small ferry...
Rescue Mania
Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...
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Ina and Johnstones
Nov. 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10 A..M. a message was received from the Blyth coastguard that two local fishing boats, Ina and Johnstones, were at sea.
A S.E. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea.<...
The Private Life-Boat Henry Ramey Upcher
AUGUST l6TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning the private lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher went out with about sixty passengers for a pleasure trip.
She was taking part in the local celebrations of the...
Fishing Boats (2)
NOVEMBER 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning the local fishing fleet had put to sea in moderate weather, but by noon an east-north-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Four motor fishing vessels were seen to...
History laid to rest
The Lifeboat Support Centre at RNLI Headquarters houses Engineering and Supply, Finance and the Sales company but, during building work in 2003, an 18th-century Baptist burial ground was unearthed here. Analysis of the excavated remains has...
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