LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay. At 7.15 on the morning of the 26th of February, 1959, the local doctor requested the use of the life- boat to take a child, who had pushed a nail up his nostril, to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion...
Isabella (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...
Various Vessels
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
Poseidon (1)
On the night of the 23rd of January, 1954, the Montrose, Angus, and the Aberdeen life-boats both went to the help of the fishing boat Poseidon, of Rothesay, whose engines had broken down. A south-easterly gale was blowing, and there was a...
The S.S. William
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 23rd of September, 1954, the S.S.
William, of Drammen, Norway, arrived off Workington and wirelessed that she had a sick man on board. She asked for a doctor, and at 4.15 the life-boat...
Faith Star, Success, and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 oil the afternoon of the 10th of February, 19,55. the skipper of a fishing boat told the coxswain that anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing boats Faith Star, Success, and Lead Us. At 2.35 the Xo. 1...
Venture
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 2nd of November, 1955, the weather worsened while the fishing coble Venture was still at sea with a crew of three, and at 11.20 the life- boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched. She was due to...
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DOCTOR'S APPEAL At 9 a.m. on 7th February, 1964, the doctor on Sark asked the honorary secretary through the St. John Ambulance Commissioner if the life-boat could take an injured woman from Sark for treatment at Guernsey Hospital. There...
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HELP FOR SICK MAN St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.10 a.m. on I2th June, 1964, the St. John Ambulance commissioner informed the honorary secretary that the life-boat was required to take a sick man from Sark to St. Peter Port. There was a...
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FOR HOSPITAL TREATMENT At 2.30 p.m. on 22nd July, 1964, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had two patients who required medical attention at a mainland hospital. As no other boat was available at the time he requested...