LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At about 7.30 P.M.

on the 2nd September the fishing boat Redwing, of Poole, was seen to be in difficulties three miles E.N.E. from Peveril Point in a moderate S.S.W. gale with a moderately heavy sea. The Motor Life-boat...

The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...

Girvan, Ayrshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that local fishing boats were returning to the har- bour in a rough sea and a strong north- north-west wind, and that conditions at the...

NEAR SPURNESS HOLMS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 1.5 p.m. on 16th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the lobster fishing boat Girl Jean of Kirkwall had broken down and was in difficulties near Spurness Holms, south-west of...

At 11.30 p.m. on igth July, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that a young man had been taken ill and urgently needed hospital treatment. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings at 12.30 a.m. on 20th July with the patient...

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Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the morning of the 28th February it was reported that a small vessel was dragging her anchors. She was the ketch Roger Aubert, of Paimpol, bound with a cargo of coal, and a crew of five, from Swansea to St. Brieuc...

MAN FOUND AFTER EIGHT-HOUR SEARCH Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Portree had reported that a man was calling for help from his...