LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Corton Lightvessel
SICK MAN ON A LIGHT-VESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 11.47 in the morning of January 6th, 1947, a message was received through the coastguard from the Trinity House superintendent, that a keeper aboard the...
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Dover, Kent.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 3rd August, during fine weather, the second coxswain saw signals from the base of the cliffs in Langdon Bay, and put off with the second motor mechanic and another man in the life-boat's motor...
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Galway Bay.—At 9.45 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of October, 1953, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seventy-four-year-old man, who was seriously ill, to the main- land, as no other boat was available.
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Arlette
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At 9.35 in the night of the 23rd of December, 1949, a wireless message was picked up at St. Abbs from the steam trawler Arlette, of Grimsby. She was making for Berwick to land a man with a poisoned arm....
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New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the I Oth of February, 1952, the police telephoned that a man had been missing from his home since five o'clock the previous evening and was thought to have fallen over a...
The S.S. Keynes
Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle...
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1961 included:— Baronet. THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROLAND THOMAS NUGENT, D.L., J.P., president of the Cloughey...
Category: Awards
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...