Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the llth of October, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to convey a child who was seriously ill to Kirkwall hospital. As there was no other boat...
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At noon on the 22nd of January, 1959, the life-boat Hilton Briggs put out in a heavy swell to the help of the motor vessel Sheraton of Rotterdam. A gale was blowing from the north-north-east, and the tide was flooding. The...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of the 3rd of April, 1960, nine local fishing boats left for Berwick Bay. By midnight the weather had deteriorated, and the southerly gale was accompanied by a very rough...
Youghal, Co. Cork. On the 13th of April, 1960, the local fleet of open salmon yawls were fishing at the entrance to the harbour. At 12.30 one of the boats was carried out into the rough confused water on the bar, and the life-boat Herbert...
Seaham, Co. Durham. At seven o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1960, some local fishermen toldthe coxswain that the fishing coble Marjory Joan of Sunderland was over- due. At 7.10 the life-boat George Elmy was launched, an hour...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—While the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), on temporary duty at the station, was on show for the local life-boat day, on the 2nd of August, 1957, the coxswain was told that a canoe had capsized a mile and a...
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the local motor fishing vessel Margaret had left the harbour at four o'clock to attend her lines and was...
Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 29th of May, 1958, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient urgently needing surgical help to the mainland.
At 3.40 the life-boat William and...
TUG TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 2.24 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about six miles east of Berwick,...
SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the local doctor received a call to attend a woman on Middle Island of Aran who was reported to be seriously ill. There was no other boat...