LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1959, a request was received from the local doctor for the use of the life-boat to convey a child, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inishmaan Island to the...
Impudence
Dover, Kent. At 11.35 on the morn- ing of the 12th of April, 1960, the lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at high water on a routine exercise with the district inspector on board. There was a fresh south-westerly wind and a rough...
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SICK WOMAN BROUGHT FROM ISLAND Galway Bay. At noon on the 27th February, 1962, the local doctor received an urgent message to go to Inishmaan Island to attend a sick woman. As no other suitable boat was available, the doctor asked for the...
Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—Shortly be- fore 9 A.M. on the 25th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the trawler Star of Victory, of Aberdeen, was ashore off Keiss in Sinclair Bay.
A light N.N.E. wind was blowing. The sea...
Dinorah
At 7.45 on the morning of llth February, with a strong wind and a very heavy sea, the Donna Nook Life-boat was called out to the help of the steam trawler Dinorah, which was in distress at Haile Flat. The Boat was successfully launched at...
Progress
Angle, Pembrokeshire. — At 12.25 early on the morning of the 9th of June, 1954, the Tenby coastguard rang up to say that the tanker Esso Cheyenne had taken in tow the ketch Progress, of Bideford, with a crew of five, which she had found...
A Swedish Presentation
THE Swedish Life-boat Society has awarded to the Institution its plaque of merit and two diplomas, each of which has this record: Swedish Life-boat Society pre- sents to the Royal National Life-boat Institution its plaque of merit for out-...
Category: Awards
Panther
THE GOODWINS SPARE A SHIP As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that...
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Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 11.10 a.m. on I5th August, 1965, a bather was reported in difficulties half a mile south of the station. At 11.13 the IRB launched in a slight sea and took the bather on board, returning with him to her station...
District Inspector In Road Accident
Lieutenant E. D. STOGDON, R.N.V.R., hospital and will be off duty for several District Inspector (South-East), who weeks. He was deeply gratified by the was involved in a road accident on the letters of sympathy received from his 22nd...
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