LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
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Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 23rd March, 1938, a message was received from Sandness that a woman on the island of Papa Stour was seriously ill and in need of a doctor. Owing to very bad weather the regular ferry service to the...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the County Medical Officer of Health tele- phoned and asked that the life-boat take a doctor to Fair Isle to attend a man with appendicitis. At 10.50 the life-boat John...
Quickstep
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At two in the afternoon of the 4th of Novem- ber, 1951, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small sailing boat making for Bembridge was in distress off Seaview and at 2.15 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
Taranaki
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...
The S.S. Clonlee
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 10th of July, 1952, the S.S. Clonlee, which had arrived off Workington from Algiers, laden with iron ore, radioed that she was short of food and asked for provisions. Her agents asked if the life-boat would...
The S.S. Henriette Schulte
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.45 on the even- ing of the 10th of February, 1953, local shipping agents telephoned that a man had fallen down the hold of the S.S. Henriette Schulte, of Emden, seriously injuring himself, and asked if the life-boat would...
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The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Kathleen
EIGHT ON BOARD Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 8.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat was reported to be in difficulties one mile east of the breakwater. Her crew were signalling for help. The tide...
Jacqueline
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.15 a.m. on 20th January, 1965, the honorary secretary received a request from a doctor in St. Ives for the use of the St. Ives lifeboat to take an injured seaman, with suspected fractured ribs, from the Belgian...