LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Galway Bay. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 24th of January, 1961, the local medical officer told the honorary secre- tary that a patient was in need of treatment on Inishere Island and asked for the use of the life-boat to take him there....

SMALL BOY MAROONED ON ROCK Torbay, Devon. At 5.44 on the evening of the 12th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a young boy was marooned on Cradle Rock. It was not possible for the coastguard to send down a...

YACHT ESCORTED UP RIVER New Brighton, Cheshire. At 11.40 on the morning of the 22nd June, 1963, a message was received that a yacht needed help north of Rock lighthouse, and ten minutes later the life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at...

Appledore, Devon. At 12.20 a.m.

on 15th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Whitehaven, of Newcastle, had a seriously injured seaman aboard who had severed a thumb and needed...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 14th of March, 1959, the coaslguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from Buchanness lighthouse that the engine of a motor fishing vessel had broken down about a mile and...

On the 25th of February the brig Oswy, of Shoreham, being at anchor in a perilous position in the roads off Lowe- stoft, her crew hoisted signals of distress, when a yawl launched and proceeded to her aid, putting 6 hands on board to assist...

Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....

A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...