LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.50 on the morning of the 4th June, 1961, a message was received from the resident doctor at Lamlash, Arran, asking if the life-boat would take two doctors from Troon to Lamlash to perform an operation, as there were no...
Blue Jacket, of Newcastle
Soon after the life-boat had returned, another vessel, the schooner Blue Jacket, of Newcastle, was seen endeavouring to ride out the storm, which, however, she did not succeed in doing, as she soon drove on shore. The life-boat was again...
Serento
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.18 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Leewick Sands. Two men were clinging to her. At 2.20 the life-boat Edward Z.
Dresden was...
A Rowing Boat (4)
Anstrwther, Fifeshlre.—At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that two boys were drifting in a rowing boat about two miles south-east of Elie Ness.
At 2.25 the life-boat James and...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 16th of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor on Clare Island requesting the use of the life-boat to take a patient from Inishturk Island to the...
Emlyn
At about 10 P.M. on the 12th November Coxswain Howells observed the steamer Emlyn, of • Cardiff, burning flares for assistance, and he at once assembled the crew of the Motor Life-boat Charterhouse. The boat proceeded to the vessel, which...
Life-Boat Builders By Tradition
THE firm of J, Samuel White & Co., Ltd., of Cowes, has been building ships in the Isle of Wight for more than two and a half centuries. During the greater part of that time the firm has been closely associated with the Life- boat...
Category: Articles
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SURVEY VESSEL Cromer, Norfolk. At 9.45 on the evening of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that H.M.S. Scott, one of the survey vessels of the Royal Navy, had requested a doctor and ambulance to...
Happy Harry, of Arklow
APRIL 2ND. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At five o’clock in the morning the naval base telephoned the life-boat station that a small vessel was ashore. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a nasty swell and heavy rain....
A Sailing Dinghy
Poole, Dorset.—At 11.40 on the night of the 29th of April, 1956, the police rang up to say that a sailing dinghy with two young men aboard was over- due from a trip within the harbour.
The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was...