LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SICK WOMAN LANDED FROM ISLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 10.15 p.m. on Thursday the 15th of August, 1963, a nurse on Inishmaan asked that the life-boat take a seriously ill patient to hospital at Rossaveel. At 10.45 the life-boat Mary...
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...
A Sailing Cruiser
Appledore, Devon - At noon on 29th September, 1967, while returning from an exercise with the R.A.F., the coxswain of the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker saw a sailing cruiser ashore in broken water on the North Tail.
There...
Ees Teyr
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6.15 on the evening of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumaris had an engine failure and was in need of assistance three miles...
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...
A Dinghy (9)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.38 on the morning of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were at the Nab Light in a small sailing dinghy and needed a tow to Bembridge. They had been drifting...
Annie Ritchie
SAFELY TO ABERDEEN At 3.35 p.m. on loth March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Annie Ritchie of Fraserburgh had broken down about three miles east by north of the Belhelvie coastguard...
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SIX BOYS STRANDED Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 6.50 p.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that six boys were stranded on a cuff at Pwllerochan.
There was a light north-easterly breeze, a...
Phyllis
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER At 7.5 a.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Phyllis was adrift about four miles south-south-east of North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a rough sea with a...