LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APPENDICITIS PATIENT Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.30 a.m.

on 4th January, 1964, a ship's agent in Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S. Doriefs of Monrovia had on board a sick man suffering from...

MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat...

BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — On the 23rd September, at about 1 A.M., a southerly gale suddenly sprang up, increasing in violence until about 3 o'clock, when it became very severe. A large fleet of fishing-boats which had gone out during the...

The French schooner Volontaire anchored in Pol- kerris Bay on the 30th May during a strong S.W. gale and very heavy sea, and the Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney, when returning from another vessel, offered her assistance, as it...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that the tanker Tank Queen, of Oslo, had anchored off Southend in dense fog and needed a doctor. One of her deck boys was thought to have...

Walmer, Kent - At 4.15 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, a cabin cruiser was seen in a dangerous position four and a half miles from the South Goodwin lightvessel. This area, where there are many wrecks, is known to dry out at low water. The lifeboat...

LANDED INJURED MAN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.2 p.m. on i8th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on board the dredger Foremost that was anchored at No. 5 sea reach buoy had injured his back and was...