LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Call...
The RNLI's Head of Public Relations, Edward Wake-Walker, reports from the International Lifeboat Conference in UruguayA hundred or so delegates from 26 different countries gathered in Montevideo, Uruguay, for the 17th International...
Category: Meetings
Sweet Home
— The schooner Sweet Some, of this port, sailed thence to Cardiff on the evening of the 15th August, but in beating out of the harbour she drove ashore at Moll Goggin's Corner.
The master and boy remained oa board to...
The S.S. Colytto
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 7.20 in the evening of the 21st of April, 1949, information was received that one of the crew of the s.s. Colytto, of Rotterdam, which was anchored one mile south-west of Lightning Knoll Buoy, urgently needed a doctor....
A Motor Punt
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At eleven in the morning of the 13th of March, 1952, a man left Cork for Ballycotton in a motor punt. He had not arrived by eight o'clock that night. The keepers of the Power Head Lighthouse, eight miles west of...
The S.S. Araton
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, a local shipping agency asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the S.S. Araton, of Stock- holm, which was lying two miles south-west of the Lightning...
Westward
HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe,...
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St. M»ry'«, Islei of Scilly —About 9.0 in the morning, of the 7th of January, 1951, it was learned that a keeper on the Bishop Rock Lighthouse was very ill. There was a relief available. A doctor was called and on getting...
Oredian
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of November, 1960, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the ore carrier Oredian of London had an injured man on board and had asked for a doctor. As it was low water and no...
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight...
The Norwegian Fishing Boat Reform
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...