LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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TAKEN TO DOCKS Galway Bay. Shortly before 9 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that a man in Kilronan had been seriously injured in a fall and required immediate hospital treatment.
Owing to the...
The British Tanker Esso Canterbury
Valentia, Co. Cork - At 9 a.m. on 2nd March, 1966, the Marine Rescue Coordination Centre at Haulbowline informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the British tanker Esso Canterbury and that her estimated time of...
The S.S. Aggie
NORWEGIAN VESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.38 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a Norwegian vessel anchored in Bull Anchorage had an injured man aboard whose condition required the services of a...
Anco Spur
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.35 p.m. on 3rd October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a shipping agency had asked for a doctor to be taken out to the Swedish tanker Anco Spur to attend to an injured man. It was one hour after low water...
Novelli
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 3rd of November, 1956, the owners of the steam trawler Novelli, of Hull, asked if the life-boat would take off an injured man. It was low water, and as no other boat was afloat, the life-boat...
A Spanish Trawler
International assistance from Westcountry lifeboat Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an...
The Bull Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 5th May, 1961, the Humber Conservancy told the cox- swain that a man in the Bull lightvessel had been injured and asked if the life- boat would land him because the weather was too bad for the...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.
About 10.30 on the morning of the 28th June, 1961, the local Trinity House representative informed the life-boat motor mechanic that a man was seriously ill in the Longstone light-...
H.M.S. Cygnet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...
The Barrels Lightvessel (1)
At 10.30 a.m. on 25th May, 1965, the Irish Lights Office informed the honorary secretary that the mother of one of the crew of Barrels lightvessel was dangerously ill, and asked if the life-boat could be launched to bring the man ashore....