LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 16th of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor on Clare Island requesting the use of the life-boat to take a patient from Inishturk Island to the...
Spes Melior II
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 1st of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head.
At 1.45 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow was launched. There...
ElectroMotion
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 7.5 p.m.
on I3th June, 1966, the doctor in Eday reported that he had a patient requiring hospital treatment. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman left her moorings at 7.30 in a moderate easterly...
Conlea and M.V. Winchester (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1956, a wire- less distress message was received at the St. Peter Port signal station from the M.V. Conlea, of London, which...
A Dinghy (4)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1957, a message was received from the RoyalUlster Constabulary barracks that a small boat with three men on board was missing at Ballywhiskin,...
H.M.S. Tug Leigh
DECEMBER 10TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.10 in the evening the naval control informed the life-boat coxswain that H.M.S. tug Leigh was sending out an SOS signal. The night was very dark and cold, with a south-east gale blowing and a...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of this truly important and national Society was held at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, London, on the 18th of May. In the absence of His Grace THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, K.G., its President,...
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The Five Survivors of the Ramsgate Crew Which Went Out to the "Indian Chief" In January, 1881. From Left to Right, T. Friend (81 Years), T. W. Cooper (79 Years), H. Belsey (82 Years), C. Verrion (80 Years), D. Berry (81 Years)
The Five Survivors of the Ramsgate Crew Which Went Out To The " Indian Chief" In January 1881 From Left To Right T Friend (81 Years) T W Cooper (79 Years) H Belsey (82 Years) C Verrion (80 Years) D Be. - View image in PDF
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Gina
Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.
1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...