LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Estelle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.40 p.m. on 22nd September, 1968, the garda informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a flare between the West pier and Howth. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 5 o'clock...
Tia Maria III
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.2 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties close inshore in Font-y-Gary bay. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris, on evaluation trials at the station...
Ciris
At 11.28 p.m. on 21st September, 1969, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in the direction of Swadman buoy and Holy Island. At 11.38 the life-boat TheEdward and Mary Lester was launched in a westerly gale with a rough sea....
Dunedin Star, of London
At 4 p.m. on 29th September, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v. Dunedin Star,of London, needed to be brought ashore.
At 9.45 the Solomon Browne life-boat was launched. The tide was ebbing. A doctor and ambulance crew were...
Lapwing
Peter-head, Aberdeenshire - At i.i p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Lapwing was firing red flares approximately a quarter of a mile off Peterhead breakwater. The...
Alme
At 2.10 a.m. on 2Oth July, 1967, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Dutch motor vessel Alme. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed, with a doctor on board, was launched at 2.43 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
Cormorant
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 10.17 P-m- on 3oth June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had under observation a yacht which was making no headway. It seemed to have dropped anchor in a dangerous position close to Little...
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Galway Bay. At n p.m. on i8th July, 1965, a child was taken by currach from Inishere to Kilronan with serious arm injuries. After examining the child the doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take the child to hospital. As the tide was...
Verconella
INJURED MAN ON TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At midnight on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary notified the coxswain that the tanker Verconella was making for Mounts Bay with a badly injured man on board.
Arrangements...
A Rubber mattress
Brighton, Sussex. At 4.7 p.m. on 8th July, 1965, the life-guard for the east section of the beach told the beach superintendent's office that a boy on a rubber mattress was drifting seawards off Black Rock swimming pool and signalling...