LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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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...
Alnair, of Monrovia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a...
Duthies, of Peterhead
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire - At 11.25 a.m. on i5th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Duthies, of Peterhead, had sprung a leak in heavy seas just outside Peterhead bay while on passage to...
Skylark
Margate, Kent - At 2.46 p.m. on gth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Skylark was in difficulties about 400 yards off Herne Bay. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 3.14 in a north easterly...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry - At 1.55 p.m. on 25th April, 1968, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with two men on board was in difficulties with engine trouble at the mouth of the river Shannon.
The...
Moira
Seaham, Co. Durham - At 1.14 p.m.
on 14th December, 1968, it was learnt that the crew of a boat were waving a red flag south of the harbour entrance. At 1.20 the life-boat Will and Fanny Kirby was...
Granat
Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 9.55 p.m. on 23rd October, 1969, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ard Finbar had reported seeing red flares about twomiles north west of Bray head. The life-boat Rowland Watts...
Seven Lifeboatmen from Newhaven Sheerness and Portsmouth
Seven lifeboatmen from Newhaven, Sheerness and Portsmouth, attended the Annual National Service for Seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 17. Coxswain/ Mechanic Leonard Patten of Newhaven lifeboat, was the RNLI colour bearer,... - View image in PDF
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Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF
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Porthdinllaen -- West Division
Porthdinllaen -- West Division Porthdinllaen (non Welsh speakers can try 'Porth-incline' as a rough approximation) is home to a slipway-launched Tyne. The station's remote location, in a small cove on the north-west coast of the... - View image in PDF
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