LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (1)
PILOT CUTTER'S REPORT At 8.14 p.m. on 4th September, 1964, .the coastguard told the honorary secretary that Nab pilot cutter had reported a dinghy adrift but was unable to help.
It was two hours before high water with...
Sidelights on Stations
WHEN Miss Grace Monro gave £1,000 to be divided largely between the life-boat crews and helpers at Holy Island, North Sunderland, Penlee and Sennen Cove during 1964, the Holy Island crew decided to express their gratitude by sending her...
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HAD APPENDICITIS At 11.30 a.m. on yth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had appendicitis and needed medical treatment. There was a...
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NEEDED MEDICAL AID Clovelly, North Devon. At 11.45 p.m.
on 29th October, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by a Bideford doctor that a woman on Lundy Island needed immediate medical attention. At 12.30 a.m. the...
A Yawl
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 9.53 a.m.
on loth January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yawl approximately half a mile off North Berwick Point had capsized and seemed to have disappeared. At 10.8 the...
Jezebel
At 5.41 p.m. on 8th September, 1966, a German ship reported that a French sailing yacht was leaking twenty nine miles south east of St.
Catherine's Point, and that the yacht could hold out for two to three hours by...
Pilot Me II, of Fraserburgh
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 5.30 a.m. on 2ist February, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II of Fraserburgh was reported to be drifting ashore in the vicinity of Tiumpan Head lighthouse about 14 miles north east of Stornoway. The...
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Saved from drowning IN THE EARLY EVENING of Saturday September 12, 1981, two girls, Leanne aged 10 and Lorna aged 8, were playing near the water's edge at Splash Point, to the east of Watchet Harbour mouth.
The weather...
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Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...
An Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire - 31st January, 1969, the coastguard reported that an ex-R.N.L.I. Jife-boat on passage from Newlyn to Rosslare had developed engine trouble and required life-boat assistance. The Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...