LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 4.10 p.m. on 26th April, 1969, while returning from exercise in a strong south westerly wind with a moderate sea, the life-boat saw a yacht sailing towards Garrison point in a dangerous position close...
Dona Myrto
Valentla, Co. Kerry.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the tanker Dona Myrto, of Panama, with a gravely ill man aboard, was expected to arrive off Yalentia at midnight. At...
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SICK MAN FROM LIGHTHOUSE LANDED Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 15th June, 1963, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a keeper on Skelligs Rock fighthouse was very ill and to...
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Immediate help A REQUEST FROM HM COASTGUARD to evacuate a severely scalded baby from Hayling Island was received at Eastney ILB boathouse at 1740 on Sunday, June 27. The duty crew immediately launched the Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II and...
Cheyenne and Ida Bakke
SEPT. 16TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 3.20 A.M. a telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service that the motor vessel Cheyenne, a tanker of Newcastle, had been sunk by enemy action 200 miles off...
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JANUARY 23RD. - GALWAY BAY. At 12.20 in the afternoon the honorary secretary of the life-boat station (on Inishmore Island) was told that a girl on the island was dangerously ill and that the only chance of saving her life was to take her at...
Miss Ann, of Paignton
JULY 18TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.7 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that the Torquay police had received a 999 telephone call which said that a whistle had been heard from a boat apparently in distress half a mile east of Roundham...
Increased Rewards
THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
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Mary Young, of West Hartlepool
.—During a heavy gale from the N.E. on the same day the brig Mary Young, of West Hartle- pool, grounded on the North Gare Sand- bank at the entrance of the Tees, a mile and a half south of Seaton Carew. The Charlotte life-boat at the latter...
A Small Boat (1)
The Motor Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.50 P.M. on the 17th April, in a strong and gusty E. breeze with a rough sea, as the Coastguard had received a message by telephone that a small boat had capsized off Jaywick, two miles...