LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Tragedies of Collecting Boxes
BOTH tragedies occurred in Hertford- shire. The first was on life-boat day in St. Albans. A little girl had been sent out by her mother to do some shopping. She had a florin ready in her hand. At the corner of the road she met a life-boat...
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At ii p.m. on ist August, 1966, the doctor informed the honorary secretarythat a critically ill patient needed urgent hospital attention on the mainland.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 11.59 and...
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APRIL 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
Three airmen had baled out from an aeroplane, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 18s. 6d..
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Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 6.50 p.m.
on 7th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people were stranded on an isolated rock below the cliffs at Berth. At 6.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1886
Jan. 7.—Voted 61. to six men, for saving the crew, consisting of eight men, of the brigantine Pathfinder, of Digby, N.S., who had taken refuge on Tor Rock, about a mile N.W. of Innia- trahull Light, off the coast of Donegal, their vessel...
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AUGUST 23RD. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. Rockets, probably from warships, had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £9 11s..
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MAY 17TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
An explosion and flares, probably connected with war activities, had been reported some ten miles off, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £16 10s..
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TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 6 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that he had a patient requiring hospital treatment and as no other boat was available requested the use of the life-boat.
The...
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AUG. 26TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
Flares had been reported, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..