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Doctor's island call-out

Date: Spring 2015

Volume: 61

Issue: 611 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2015

CLIFDEN | 23 DECEMBER
An elderly resident of Inishturk Island was able to spend Christmas at home, after volunteer crew from Clifden Lifeboat Station sped the local doctor to his bedside in an...

Category: Articles

Mizpah

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Montrose, Angus.^On the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1957, the wife of the skipper of the fishing boat Mizpah informed the motor mechanic that her husband's boat had broken down with engine trouble off Buddon Point., At two o'clock...

(Left) Watson:

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

(left) Watson: length overall 46ft 9in; beam 12ft 9in; draught 4ft 4in; displacement 23 tons; maximum speed, over 8 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The 46ft 9in Watson, introduced in 1947, launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Marjory Gaw

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

PARACHUTE FLARES SHOW YACHT IN DANGER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.5 on the evening of the 2nd September, 1962, the honorary secretary received messages from the coast life-saving service and the civic guards that rockets and flares had...

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Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.

The woman had been unsuccessfully...

Hunt's Gun and Projectile for Effecting Communication With Wrecked Vessels

Date: November 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 114

IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...

Category: Articles

Special Voyage

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Deb Graham, daughter of Exmouth coxswain Keith Graham, helped mark a special occasion when she went aboard Exmouth's Trent class lifeboat during the traditional Christmas Day swim off Exmouth beach last year.

Deb, sadly... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Dollard

Date: Summer 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 569

Silver service at Cleethorpes and NumberIt is a rare occasion that Cleethorpes and Number crews work together on shouts. Only 5 miles apart as the crow flies, the two stations couldn't be more different.

Cleethorpes...

Lancashire Girl

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Selsey, Sussex.—At half past eight on the night of the 14th of December, 1949, the coastguard gave information that the Owers light-vessel had reported a yacht sinking nearby. At 8.40 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...

Ivo Luc

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Wick, Caithness-shire.—On the 10th February, 1938, the Belgian motor fishing vessel Ivo Luc, of Zeebrugge, had a breakdown of her engine while fishing off Clythness. She carried a crew of four. A fresh N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...