LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Barrell's Llightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.40 on the morning of the 12th August, 1961, the Inspector of Irish Lights told the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the Barrell's lightvessel who needed to be landed. As no...
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Gabvay Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, to take him to Inishmaan to attend a seriously injured...
Millwood
PERITONITIS PATIENT Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.30 a.m.
on yth January, 1964, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that the trawler Millwood of Aberdeen, which was being towed by the trawler Janwood 12...
A Dinghy
Barrow, Lancashire - At 1.23 a.m.
on 23rd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy was overdue from a fishing trip offBiggar bank. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 1.45. It...
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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...
Proodos
OFF PENZANCE At 3 p.m. on 29th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat would be required to bring a sick man off the Greek vessel Proodos. At 6.10 the life-boat Solomon Browne was launched in a light north...
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A Small Rowing Boat
OCTOBER 17TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At eight at night the coastguard reported that a man who had gone out fishing in a small rowing boat at one o’clock had not returned. There was thick fog. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea...
The Local Shrimping Boat Jenny
At about 11.30 A.M. on the 15th January the Coxswain was informed by fisher- men, who had just returned, that the local shrimping boat Jenny, with only one man on board, was flying a distress signal. In a moderate S. to S.W. gale, with a...
A Boat
HOLYHEAD.—A telephone message having been received from the Breakwater Lighthouse stating that a boat, containing one man, was drifting across Church Bay and was evidently in need of assistance, on the llth June, the coxswain of the...