LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alekton
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 12.32 p.m. on 2nd February, 1969, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alekton, with two people on board, had broken down on the east side of Ryde pier and needed the assistance of the life-boat. At 12.47 the...
Evergreen
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd June, 1969, information was received that a yacht had capsized off Blackrock.
At 4.29 the life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings. It was low water. She came up with...
Christina
At 6.4 p.m. on the 28th October, 1969, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted east south east of Ramsgate. At 6.16 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings in a light south...
Blanche
Wells, Norfolk - At 2.45 p.m. on 31st October, 1969, the coxswain noted that the fishing boat Blanche had not returned to harbour with the other local boats. At 3.35 the lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat was launched in a fresh westerly wind...
Elblag
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 11.15 P-mon loth November, 1966, news was received that the Polish motor vessel Elblag, of Szczecin, which was twenty miles south of Lowestoft, had a sick man on board. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,on temporary duty...
A Dinghy (1)
Appledore, Devon - At 10.35 a-mon 25th June, 1967, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy he had been watching for about half an hour had capsized off North Tail.
The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker slipped...
Gullfoss, of Reykjavik
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 2.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Gullfoss of Reykjavik which would be off Scrabster at 4 o'clock. The life-boat Pentland...
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TAKEN TO ROSSAVEEL At 3 p.m. on 22nd June, 1964, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a patient to hospital on the mainland. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 4.30 with the patient...
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PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 11.40 a.m. on zyth January, 1965, a surgeon at Kirkwall hospital asked the honorary secretary if a life-boat could take an emergency patient from the Island of Eday to the hospital. The lifeboat The John Gellatly...
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Galway Bay. At 8.25 p.m. on I2th May, 1965, the local medical officer received a call to go to Inishmaan island to attend a patient. The doctor tried unsuccessfully to obtain a boat to take him to the island and then asked for the use of the...