LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gift from a Will
THE Institution has received a gift of £50 from the surviving brother and sister of a marine surveyor in Wales who died intestate at the end of 1951.
They write that they know their brother had a great admiration for...
Category: Donations
Parliamentary Question and Answer
ME. JAMES CALLAGHAN, M.P. for South East Cardiff, asked the Minister of Transport if he would set up a committee to review the adequacy of present arrangements for searching and assisting vessels in distress round the British Isles. Mr. A. T...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk-At 10.59 a.m.
on llth May, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing dinghy with two people on board was being carried away by the ebb tide and appeared to be out of control. The life-boat...
A Cabin Cruiser
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.55 p.m. on 15th December, 1968, news was received that a boat was in difficulties off Sully island. The lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris on evaluation trials at the station slipped her moorings at 5.15 in...
Apex and Gloria J.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.8 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, two cabin cruisers were reported aground at South Shoebury. At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
A Yacht (4)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.50 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a yacht was aground on East Barrow sands. She was not showing any distress signals but in view of the weather conditions the lifeboat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at...
Tasman
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8 p.m.
on 29th August, 1966, local residents saw a yacht in difficulties in Pembroke bay.
At 8.20 the life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a...
None (3)
Galway Bay - At 1.30 p.m. on 2nd October, 1966, the local doctor reported that a woman with a heart complaint required to be taken from Inishmaan Island to hospital. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson slipped her moorings at 2.30 and...
None
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd March, 1967, news was received that a sick child at North Ronaldsay required immediate hospital attention. The patient was embarked on the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman which slipped her mooring...
Tonga
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.14 p.m. on 23rd July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Tonga was in difficulties with engine trouble and was drifting 17^ miles south south west of Portland Bill. After ascertaining that a tow could not be...