LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1956, the office of the Irish Lights in Dublin telephoned that there was an injured man on the Coningbeg light- vessel and asked if the life-boat would bring him...

Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.

—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corfield, of London, needed a doctor to attend a sick man.

As no other boat...

INJURED ENGINEER At 8.5 p.m. on i2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Virtala had radioed for medical assistance for an injured engineer, reporting that the engines were out of...

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.15 in the night of the 29th of November, 1949, a Canisbay doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take him to Stroma Island to attend an injured man, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him. A...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.45 in the morning, on the 6th of July, 1950, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull lightvessel that she had an inju ed man needing help.

At 5.5 the life-boat City of Bradford...

Padstow, Cornwall. At 10.45 on the night of the 12th of January, 1961, Lloyd's agent informed the honorarysecretary that the motor fishing vessel Moonlit Waters, which had an injured man on board, had asked for a doctor to be brought to...

Life-boat 70-002 at Scapa pier, Orkney -At 11.30 a.m. on 18th April, 1969, a man was seen by a member of the life-boat crew to fall from the end of Scapa pier into the sea. The IRB carried aboard the life-boat was launched at 11.31. The tide...

The Third Boat by Leila Mackinlay (Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., I2s. 6d.) takes its title from a Manx superstition and this pleasant but somewhat fragmentary tale is rarely out of sight or sound of the sea. Moving from Morecambe Bay to the Isle...