LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SERVICE TO SARK St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 ajn. on 3Oth January, 1965, the St. John Ambulance brigade informed the honorary secretary that a sick person on Sark needed to be transported to Guernsey and requested the services of the...
For More Than 40 Years Two Generations of Two Families
For more than 40 years two generations of two families have been raising funds for the RNL1 at the Cramond Inn on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The two families, the Gumleys (owners of the inn) and the Proudfoots (the managers),... - View image in PDF
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BIyth, Northumberland - At 11.45 a.m. on 24th March, 1968, thecoastguard told the honorary secretary that a coble had fired distress flares in Cambois bay about one mile north of the harbour mouth.
The life-boat Winston...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down - On 18th March, 1969, it was reported that four days previously two birdwatchers had been landed on Old Lighthouse island and, due to unfavourable weather conditions, it had not been possible to take them...
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Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.17 p.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small motor boat was reported to have broken down a quarter of a mile east of Chapel point. At 1.30 the IRB was launched in a heavy swell and a fresh westerly wind. It was one...
A Dinghy (8)
At 4.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a red dinghy seemed in trouble off Penlee.
Meanwhile, Penlee fog station reported that the dinghy was in danger of being carried on to the rocks. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary...
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Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...
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Tramore, Co. Waterford. At 4.25 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the police that cries for help had been heard coming from the sea half a mile east of the station.
At 4.30 the IRB launched on a...
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Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.20 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that some of the local fishing cobles were still at sea in deteriorating weather conditions and might need assistance to return to the...