LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetland.—During the afternoon of the 24th September the island of Papa Stour informed Sandness post office, on the mainland, that doctor was wanted for a sick man on the island. The weather was too bad at that time to allow an...
The 18-feet Motor Boat E.M.
Fowey, Cornwall. —• About eleven o'clock in the morning of the 8th of June, 1952, a message was received that a motor boat had reached Fowey and the owner had reported that his friend was missing in the 18-feet motor boat E.M. He had...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
The S.S. Cardiff Brook
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a badly injured man aboard the S.S. Cardiff Brook of London. A doctor had been taken...
A Dinghy (1)
CHILLED SURVIVORS AFTER a white flashing light had been seen off Margate, Kent, at 12.54 a.m. on 4th October, 1971, the life-boat North Foreland was launched.
After travelling a mile and a half towards the flashing light...
Iron Ore
At 1.30 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, Valentia Radio informed the honorary secretary that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel Iron Ore, then seven miles north west of Bray Head, who needed medical attention. The lifeboat Rowland...
Hoperidge
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 19TH- 2 1 ST. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 6.45 in the morning the motor life-boat at Newcastle, Co. Down, L. P. and St.
Helen, was launched in a blinding snow-storm to the help of the...
Letters
Kiver Thames Branch • The River Thames branch was formed just over four years ago as pan of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association. The branch is unique because all members are either Offshore members or Governors of the...
Category: Correspondence
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
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Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...