LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay - At 5.40 p.m. on 2nd November, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat to attend a woman on Inishere Island who was seriously ill. At 6.30 the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson with the doctor on board, left...
Eighty German Lives Saved
ON the afternoon of 29th October, a steamer arriving at Kingstown, on the south side of Dublin Bay, reported that a ship had gone ashore. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea.
The Motor Life-boat was launched...
Category: Services
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
Category: Articles
Dauntless Star
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 6.30 a.m. on 6th August, 1965, a yawl was reported stopped between Rosehearty and Sandhaven, apparently broken down.
Her crew were waving an oilskin. There was a westerly wind of near gale...
A Speed Boat
SPEED BOAT TOWED IN New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.10 p.m. on I2th March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a speed boat in the River Mersey was in difficulties and needed assistance. The life-boat, Norman B. Corlett was launched...
Silver Coquet, Provider, Ocean Vanguard and Wayside Flower
Amble, Northumberland - In the early afternoon of 3Oth January, 1967, four fishing cobles were at sea when conditions at the harbour bar were worsening.
The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 2.16 p.m. in a...
Moonshine
Hastings, Sussex - At 8.55 p.m. on 17th April, 1968, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about five miles south east of the life-boat station.
The life-boat Fairlight was launched...
Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 8.15 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that anxiety was felt for a local open fishing boat which was at sea, as the weather was...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.24 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Littlestone, tipping two people into the sea. At 4.38 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
A Dinghy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.14 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Brighton police had reported that a ten-feet dinghy was adrift one mile south-east of the Brighton Palace pier. At 8.25...