LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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RADIO INVICTA Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.5 p.m. on 28th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a wireless transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had badly injured a foot and...
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Reserve life-boat O.N. 873 on trials.
At 12.45 P-m- °n i?th July, 1964, while the reserve life-boat George Elmy was undergoing trials on the river Thames she heard from the river boat Tamar Belle that a sailing dinghy...
Namanda
YACHT AGROUND Kirkcudbright. At 5.06 p.m. on nth April, 1965, a local boatman informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a cabin cruiser on the rocks off the Balmangan shore of Ross Bay. There was a strong westerly breeze with a slight...
May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.35 a.m.
on 14th August, 1969, the honorary secretary reported that red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of Nave island. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley...
A Dinghy (2)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY WITH CHILDREN ABOARD Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 7th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy with two youths and three small children on board might soon be...
Catrina
TOW FOR CATAMARAN IN NEAR GALE Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 2.3 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficulties northnorth- east of Fishguard. The...
Mr. W. H. Richards
MR. W. H. RICHARDS, previously second coxswain at the former Lyn- mouth life-boat station, died in a London hospital on the ist December, 1963, at the age of 82.
He was the last survivor of the crew which, in January 1899...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 5.35 on the evening of the 17th of July, 1957, a telephone message was received that a motor boat needed help in Scotch Bay. She had a crew of five, one of whom was waving a shirt. The life-boat Dunleary II put...
Border Queen
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 15th May, 1961,the coastguard told the honorary sec- retary that a fishing vessel, with a crew of four, had broken down and was drifting two miles north of Heugh. The men were waving a...