LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dolphin friendly
Falmouth’s inshore lifeboat crew was involved in a large and unusual rescue operation on 9 June when a pod of dolphins became stranded in Porth Creek on the Percuil River. When the lifeboat arrived on scene, more than 20 had already died,...
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Evergreen
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd June, 1969, information was received that a yacht had capsized off Blackrock.
At 4.29 the life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings. It was low water. She came up with...
Christina
At 6.4 p.m. on the 28th October, 1969, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted east south east of Ramsgate. At 6.16 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings in a light south...
Blanche
Wells, Norfolk - At 2.45 p.m. on 31st October, 1969, the coxswain noted that the fishing boat Blanche had not returned to harbour with the other local boats. At 3.35 the lifeboat Ernest Tom Neathercoat was launched in a fresh westerly wind...
Elblag
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 11.15 P-mon loth November, 1966, news was received that the Polish motor vessel Elblag, of Szczecin, which was twenty miles south of Lowestoft, had a sick man on board. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,on temporary duty...
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PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 11.40 a.m. on zyth January, 1965, a surgeon at Kirkwall hospital asked the honorary secretary if a life-boat could take an emergency patient from the Island of Eday to the hospital. The lifeboat The John Gellatly...
A Dinghy (4)
Walmer, Kent. At approximately 6.53 p.m. on 7th July, 1965, life-boatmen at the boathouse saw an overturned dinghy with her crew of two in the water a mile seawards off Deal pier. The IRB launched immediately, in a light northwesterly breeze...
Guide Me
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At n a.m.
on nth November, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Guide Me had not returned to harbour with the rest of the fishing fleet, following a gale warning...
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FEBRUARY 2 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.45 in the afternoon information was received that the principal keeper at the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse had asked by wireless for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper. The motor...
Dawn
OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the entrance to Strangford Lough. A strong westerly breeze was...