LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Longhope, Orkneys.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 2nd of July, 1954, the motor mechanic reported that the bowman of the life-boat had met with a serious accident on his motor cycle and that a doctor wished to send him to hospital at...
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a local crab boat was showing a red flag on an oar two and a half miles east-by-north of the coastguard...
Dawn Star
Padstow, Cornwall.—About 7.30 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the Newquay police had reported a boat on fire in Watergate Bay. The No. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadmck put out in a...
The Barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann, of Barnstaple, which each had a crew of two, had got into difficulties off Crow Point while collecting...
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Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of December, 1954, the doctor at Kilronan asked if the life-boat would take an eighty- three-year-old man in urgent need of surgical treatment from Inishmaine Island to the mainland...
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Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of February, 1955, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick man in need of hospital treatment to the mainland, as no other suitable boat was...
Gava
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....
A Dinghy
Hastings, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 7th of Mav, 1055, the Fail-light coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Eastbourne police that two men were adrift in a dinghy two miles off Langney Point....
Nahula
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 29th of May, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that one of the yachts in the race round the island had been dismasted. At 10.20 the life-boat Helena Harris-Manchester and District XXXI was...
Cymba
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 10.15 on the night of the 31st of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed flares between Goose Rock and Lesser Saltee Island. At 10.35 the life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched.
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