LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lifeboat on passage saves eight Lytham St Annes and Hoy lake West Division The Tyne class lifeboat Voluntary Worker, on evaluation trials at Lytham St Annes, was three-and-a-half hours into a passage from her home station to Holyhead for...

TRAWLER AGROUND At 8.35 a.m. on 8th June, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the trawler Craigievar of Aberdeen was aground at Red Head, Eday. At 8.55 the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings in...

SOUGHT REFUGE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.30 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Lucelle, with fuel trouble, had taken refuge alongside the Bar lightvessel in rough seas and a...

RABBIT-CATCHERS MAROONED Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Shortly after seven in the evening of the 22nd of December, 1947, information was received from Melness, Sutherlandshire, thirty-five miles to the eastwards, that two men were marooned on the...

Blackpool ladies lifeboat guild held a sponsored walk across Morecambe Bay on 14 June to raise funds for the Institution. The walk was led by the Queen's Official Guide, Cedric Robinson and was highly successful with over 200 people... - View image in PDF

A gale from S.S.E. sprang up with exceptional suddenness shortly before .5 A.M. on the 22nd January. Several of the local fish- ing boats were off fishing, and three were taken into safety by the Life-boat Queensbury. The Coxswain was...

APPENDICITIS Galway Bay. At 6.0 p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis requiring hospital treatment and had failed to obtain a boat for the journey to the...

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on the 26th January a telephone message was received from Portaferry, stating that a vessel was ashore at Ballyquinton Point. The Life- boat John was launched and, on reaching the position indicated, found...