LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Galway Bay.—At 1.30 on the after- noon of the 25th of September, 1957, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a woman urgently in need of an opera- tion for appendicitis to the...

Stornoway, Hebrides. On the 11th of April, 1958, the agents for the trawler Seddon, which had stranded in Storno- way harbour on the 8th of April, wanted to run a kedge anchor out from her and asked if the life-boat would undertake this...

HELP FOR LIFE-BOAT ON PASSAGE Aberdeen. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th May, 1963, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Norman Nasmyth had broken down off Portlethen while on passage from Montrose...

Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 5.15 p.m. on 19th October, 1967, the coxswain was informed that there was a sick man on Tory Island.

Owing to weather conditions it was impossible for another boat to reach the island. The...

The Grosvenor Circle, a newly formed drama group of the headquarters staff of the R.N.L.I., staged their first production, Short Story, by Robert Morley, at the Abbey Community Centre Theatre, London, S.W.I, on 15th March, 1968.

On behalf of the Committee of Management I send to all boats' officers, crews and launchers, all officers, members and sup- porters of station and financial branches and ladies, guilds, and to all the staff of the Institution at the head...

Walmer, Kent - At 7.33 p.m. on 23rd July, 1968, two IRB crew members saw a sculler belonging to the Deal rowing club capsize just north of the pier. Another club member swam out to him, but the sculler was driven rapidly towards the pier and...

H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...