LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ilfracombe, Devon. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched with the district engineer on board for an engine trial in a moderate easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was...

Swanage, Dorset - At 12.25 p.m. on 25th April, 1970, it was learnt that two dinghies of a visiting youth club association had capsized threequarters of a mile north east of Swanage pier and were being carried out to sea rapidly. At 12.34 the...

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ELECTRICIANS TAKEN OFF LIGHT IN GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 14th December, 1962, the motor mechanic was told by the docks manager that two maintenance electricians were on Wyre light on routine maintenance work....

Since the June 1963 number of the Life-boat went to press the owners of the Johan Collett, the Norwegian motor vessel to whose assistance the St. Peter Port life-boat went on 5th February, have made a substantial donation to the...

SICK MEMBER OF LIGHTVESSEL'S CREW SAVED Penlee, Cornwall. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1963, the coastguard asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a sick man from the Seven Stones lightvessel.

EMERGENCY CALL FOR DRUG Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 2 p.m.

on 20th April, 1964, the district nurse told the honorary secretary that a sick woman at Inverie urgently needed a certain drug and it would be necessary to use...

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