LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Liberty
Kirkcudbright. At 11.10 on the night of the 28th December, 1961, the bow- man told the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing vessel Liberty was on the rocks at Ross Island with engine trouble. She had one man...
Andania
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Penlee, Cornwall. At 11.30 a.m. on 2ist March, 1964, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Andania would arrive off Penzance at 5 p.m. bearing a sick man on board who needed hospital...
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HAD APPENDICITIS At 11.30 a.m. on yth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had appendicitis and needed medical treatment. There was a...
Mako
MAN DIED Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.58 p.m. on I3th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small boat, Mako, was in distress eight miles south-west of Newhaven.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 5.5 in a moderate...
Shetland Trader
At 4.33 p.m. on I9th January, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Shetland Trader had a sick man on board who required medical attention. The life-boatMillie Walton slipped her moorings at 4.50 with a doctor on board. There was a light...
Frances Fladgate
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 9.5 on the morning of the 23rd of February, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a man was very ill on board the collier Frances Fladgate. The vessel was mak- ing for...
Peking, of Odessa
Homber, Yorkshire - At 3.38 p.m. on November, 1967, the coxswain reported that there was a sick man on board the tanker Peking of Odessa.
The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Busy Bee
AUGUST 23RD. - APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the morning several of the crew of the life-boat were at the boat-house when they saw the small pleasure boat Busy Bee, of Barnstaple, in difficulties and shewing signals of distress....
Ennal's Point
Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...
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Iris
DURING the last days of 1917 the Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-Naze Life-boats performed two splendid services, well worthy of the traditions of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, and resulting in the rescue of no less than 115 lives,...