LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CHILD WAS SICK At 3.45 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the local doctor received a request from Inishmaan Island to attend to a sick child. There was a slight sea with a gentle north-westerly breeze. It was high water. At 4.30 the life-boat...
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At 1.30 p.m. on loth October, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he needed to go to Inishmaan and the Inishere islands to attend patients. At 2.30, when the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings, it was...
A Fishing Boat (1)
At 12.22 a.m. on i6th July, 1966, a small fishing boat was seen drifting off No. 9 Sea Reach buoy. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was one hour after high water. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service...
Lifeboat Services
Western Division MFV aground A RED FLARE fired over Barmouth Bar was seen by the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 2140 on Wednesday November 22, 1978. Just after he had alerted Coxswain Evan Jones, the honorary secretary...
Category: Services
Holly
Twelve minutes of terror It took Port Talbot's inshore lifeboat crew just a few minutes to save a life at sea but the three found their training and courage tested to the limit On the morning of 10 January 2006 a call came through to...
Welsh Lady
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 1.12 p.m. on 30th April, 1967, it was learned that a boat was on fire opposite Dyffryn, seven and a half miles north of Barmouth. The coastguard had been advised of the incident by a local resident.
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Britannia
— On the morning of the 29th December, as the local motor fishing coble Britannia was at sea, and a very heavy ground swell was breaking across the mouth of the haven, making entry difficult and dangerous, it was decided to send out the...
Norman Nasmyth
HELP FOR LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Aberdeen. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Norman Nasmyth had broken down off Portlethen while on passage from Montrose...
A Canoe (1)
Dover, Kent. At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 11th of July, 1960, a report was received that a canoe had capsized in Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 3.15 in a fresh south- westerly gale and a moderate sea. It was two...
Skylark
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 7.44 on the evening of the 3rd June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat which had a crew of three had broken down near the North Carr lightvessel, and at 8.5 the life-boatJames and...