LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lapwing
The Life- boat Dunleary was launched a few minutes after midnight on February 14th-15th, in response to a message received from the Coastguard, stating that a pilot-boat, named the Energy, and the schooner Lapwing, of Arklow, had been in...
Little Mary
Seaham, Co. Durham. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, distress signals were seen north-east of the harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat George Elmy was launched in a moderate northerly wind and sea....
A Dinghy (3)
At 7.15 a.m. on 24th June, 1967, a report was received that a small dinghy had capsized with three people on board.
The life-boat John F.Kennedy slipped her moorings at 7.33 in a fresh south south westerly wind and a choppy...
Runa (1)
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...
None (1)
Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
Life-Boat Days In 1934
LAST year there was again an increase in the number of branches which held life-boat days, in the number of people who contributed and in the amount collected.
The number of branches holding days was|732, one more than in...
Category: Correspondence
Landes
The motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 4.54 A.M. on the 3rd January, as the Hoylake coastguard had tele- phoned that the steamer Landes, of Liverpool, was ashore on the revetment, with a heavy list, and wanted immedi- ate...
Eleanor
Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a fishing boat in difficulties four miles south-east o the life-boat station. Five minutes later the...
A Bodyboard
Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.
He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...
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