LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other...

St. Ives, Cornwall.—-At 4.43 in the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local pleasure boat Reaper, with a boat- man and twelve passengers aboard, had struck a rock between Wicca Point and Zennor Point,...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say the agents for the local fishing vessels Launch Out, Vesper and Guiding Star had reported that they were at sea in very heavy weather and...

Torbay, Devon.—At 8.45 on the even- ing of the 10th of February, 1953, local shipping agents telephoned that a man had fallen down the hold of the S.S. Henriette Schulte, of Emden, seriously injuring himself, and asked if the life-boat would...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.28 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1953, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that the local pilot cutter had reported that the fishing boat Ocean Viking, which was towing a derelict barge with nobody on board,...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 4.4 on the afternoon of the 15th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that during racing held by a local yacht club a Merlin sailing dinghy, the Punch, had capsized one and a half miles south- west-by-west of...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the 3rd November, 1939, three local fishing cobles were at sea. The wind was light from the S.E., but the sea was very rough. At 12.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched and found the coble Evelyn...

Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...