LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Year Honours
Two knighthoods conferred on mem- bers of the Committee of Management were among the honours bestowed in the New Year Honours list.
The li ,t of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service was:...
Category: Awards
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Tobermory, Isle of Mull.---On the evening of the 5th August, 1939, a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman to Oban, to be sent thence to the Maternity Hospital, Glasgow. No steamer was available and he was afraid that she would...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT'S CREW LOST Dunmore East, Co. Watcrford.—On the morning of the 2nd of May, 1947, news was received from Brownstown Head by the civic guard that a lobster fishing boat had not been heard of since seven o'clock the...
Major W. Bertram Bell
Major W. Bertram Bell, who has died at his home in County Cork, was in his 91st year and joined the Committee of Management in 1954, retiring in 1969.
Both he and Mrs. Bell were for many years prominent supporters of the...
Category: Obituaries
Popsy
Plymouth, South Devon. At 7.30 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the police at Plympton reported that a man at Wembury Point had seen a small yacht capsize off Gara Point. At 7.47 the life-boat Lloyds, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in...
Yves Chantal
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.25 p.m. on 4th January, 1966, the Tol Pedn coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen 10 miles south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 6.38 on a moderate southerly...
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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...