LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A Motor Boat
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 4 p.m. on 5th September, 1968, the coastguard reported that a motor boat with two people on board was in difficulties in Maidens bay. Five minutes later the life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10) slipped her...
Girl Pat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 7.15 p.m. on 25th Sep-tember, 1966, three men in a boat off Gorleston were seen flashing a light and waving their arms. The IRB was launched immediately to investigate and the life-boat Louise...
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Galway Bay - At 7.5 p.m. on nth December, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that an expectant mother needed to be taken to hospital and asked if the life-boat could take her as no other suitable craft wasavailable. The...
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 11.30 p.m.
on 8th January, 1967, the surgeon of Kirkwall hospital informed the honorary secretary that a child at North Ronaldsay was suffering from acute appendicitis and should be transferred to...
Golden Chance
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 10.56 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, it was reported that a fishing coble, with two men aboard, was anchored about twomiles south of the harbour on a lee shore in heavy seas. She was flying a distress signal. The...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
TWO CAME BACK Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 12.39 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Black Rock sands and both occupants were in the sea. There...
American Shipper
SICK MEN LANDED Penlee, Cornwall. At midday on ist January, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick man needed to be landed from the motor vessel American Shipper, at approx. 3 p.m. The lifeboat Solomon Browne launched at 2.50...
A Speed Boat
SPEED BOAT OUT OF FUEL Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.5 p.m.
on ist August, 1965, a speed boat was reported drifting out to sea off Lee-over- Sands. The people in it were waving their arms. There was a light southerly breeze...
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APPENDICITIS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 4.50 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor in Papa Westray that he had an acute appendicitis case requiring immediate hospital treatment. As no other vessel was...