LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MATERNITY PATIENT At 4.30 p.m. on 2yth January, 1966, the local Medical Officer of Health informed the honorary secretary that an expectant mother needed immediate hospital treatment on the mainland. As no other suitable boat was available...
Chantecler
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—Early in the afternoon of the 16th March the auxiliary yacht Chantecler, of Lytham, broke away from her moorings. A strong east breeze was blowing, with amoderate sea. As no one was on board the yacht, the motor...
Widgeon II
Walmer, Kent. At 8.56 on the even- ing of the 21st of September, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that two red flares had been seen four to five miles south-east of the look-out. At 9.5 the life-boat Charles Dibdin...
The S.S. Gourie, S.S. Finland, and Steamers Ivan Kondrup and Feddy
JANUARY 9TH. - ABERDEEN. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that machine-gun fire and the sound of bomb explosions, from an attack by enemy aircraft on shipping, had been heard east of Downie Point. A fresh S.S.W. wind...
Schell-Ficher
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the German trawler Schell-Ficher. This stated that a mem- mer of her crew...
Children Rescued from Cabin Cruiser
ON the afternoon of 16th September, 1962, Mr. Kenneth Johnson and his brother, Mr. Frank Johnson, with six of their children aged between two and twelve, went on board Mr. Kenneth Johnson's cabin cruiser, which was one of the Dolphin...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles (3)
RUNSWICK.—The Life-boat Cape of Good Hope was launched at 2.15 A.M. on the 24th June to the assistance of several fishing-cobles which were making for the bay, having been overtaken by a strong gale from the N.N.E. and a heavy...
Medex 87
A NAVY Bomb Disposal team tackles still active wartime relic, caught in the nets of a fishing vessel.
A party of 10 anglers, adrift in their disabled boat, float into the danger area just as the wartime explosive...
Category: Articles
Rentokil Group Ltd
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Aldebaran
ESCORT FOR HOLED DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.27 on the morning of the 20th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was making water rapidly and needed help...