LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...
H.M. Destroyer Erne
APRIL 30TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.22 P.M. a message was received from the Fraserburgh coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Erne had been bombed when ten and a half miles from Kinnaird Head, and at 11 P.M. the motor...
Cover Picture
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Dennis
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.55 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1954,the coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Dennis was still at sea and the weather was deteriorating. It was thought that she might be in danger making for...
A Cabin Cruiser
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.55 p.m. on 15th December, 1968, news was received that a boat was in difficulties off Sully island. The lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris on evaluation trials at the station slipped her moorings at 5.15 in...
Alekton
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 12.32 p.m. on 2nd February, 1969, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alekton, with two people on board, had broken down on the east side of Ryde pier and needed the assistance of the life-boat. At 12.47 the...
Apex and Gloria J.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.8 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, two cabin cruisers were reported aground at South Shoebury. At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th December, 1961, the second coxswain discussed with the honorary secretary the possible danger to the fishing fleet at sea, as the weather was growing worse, and it was...
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Galway Bay. At 8.25 p.m. on I2th May, 1965, the local medical officer received a call to go to Inishmaan island to attend a patient. The doctor tried unsuccessfully to obtain a boat to take him to the island and then asked for the use of the...
Eronwin
YACHT TOWED IN At 6.50 p.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the life-boat was requested to take over from the Trinity House vessel Ready the towing of the yacht Eronwin. The life-boat Kathleen...