LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Welcome
What will you discover this autumn?
The ‘back to school’ feeling is a receding memory for many of us, but I still find autumn brings a clean slate and the instinct to try something new. This issue, we meet volunteers who...
Category: Articles
A clearer picture
The RNLI’s Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1854 (excerpt shown left) states: ‘Loss of life (as far as can be ascertained) 1,549.’ Two years earlier, the Lifeboat admitted that: ‘No complete record of shipwrecks is kept …’ but the quoted...
Category: Articles
The Wherry Daniel Yorke
KAMSET, ISLE OF MAN.— The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at about 10.45 A.M. on the 31st October, signals of distress having been shown by a wherry which was riding heavily about three miles N.E. of the harbour during a whole gale from...
A Small Boat
On the after- noon of the 3rd March a man told the coxswain that a boat was drifting off Howth. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
The motor life-boat Lady Kylsant put out at 3.10 P.M., and about three...
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Galway Bay.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of December, 1954, the doctor at Kilronan asked if the life-boat would take an eighty- three-year-old man in urgent need of surgical treatment from Inishmaine Island to the mainland...