LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.12 early on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that two bathers were marooned on a sand- bank at Point Clear. The life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at...
Fishing Boats
SEVENTEEN BOATS ESCORTED OVER BAR Arbroath, Angus. During the morning of the 1st November, 1962, a southerly gale sprang up, causing very rough seas at the harbour bar. The Arbroath fishing fleet was at sea, and as the weather was...
Himan
PATIENT ON BOARD .TANKER Wick, Caithness-shire. At 6.30 p.m.
on 2Oth December, 1963, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that the tanker Himan had a crew member on board suffering from appendicitis. The...
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Gabvay Bay. At 4.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1960, the local medical officer asked for the life- boat to take a patient, who was in need of immediate hospital treatment, to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other boat was...
A Pontoon
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 6.35 on the morning of the 19th August, 1961, the coxswain received a request for the help of the life-boat to take workmen off Messrs. Wimpey's pontoon. He contacted the honorary secretary, who authorised the...
Negus
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 8.15 on the morning of the 24th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Negus with two men aboard was in difficulties near the rocks off Dunbar harbour and needed help. At...
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CUT OFF BY TIDE At 5.52 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the life-boat's mechanic that the police had reported two people cut off by the tide on Renney rocks. There was a moderate west-northwesterly breeze with a heavy...
Breakaway
At 3.45 a.m. on igth June, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the yacht Breakaway had reported that she had been rammed by a coaster off Beachy head. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4 o'clock in a light...
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Slip sparks searchA summer holiday in Cornwall turned int by Fox Cove, near Newquay, on 9 August 2( unconscious into the water when a couple from Essex. They were walking le man slipped on rocks and was knockedInstinctively, the woman jumped...
A Gallant Mechanic
ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.
H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...
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