LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golf Competitions
AN appeal was again made at the beginning of 1934 to the principal golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland to hold competitions in aid of the life- boat service, for which the Institution would present silver and enamel spoons as prizes. As...
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On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...
A Yacht and a Speed Boat
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.30 p.m. on i2th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized two miles north of Hartlepool.
There was a light north-easterly breeze with a calm sea. The...
A Dinghy (2)
TAKEN IN TOW At 11.53 a.m. on 20th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen in difficulties off Kimmeridge ledge. It was requested that the life-boat be launched. A sergeant and a constable embarked in...
A Fishing Boat (1)
At 12.22 a.m. on i6th July, 1966, a small fishing boat was seen drifting off No. 9 Sea Reach buoy. There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a rough sea. It was one hour after high water. The lifeboat Greater London II (Civil Service...
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
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TOOK SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 3.15 p.m. on 24th October, 1964, the nurse at Kilronan told the honorary secretary that a sick child was in need of medical treatment at a mainland hospital. The sea was slight with a gentle north-westerly wind...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 26th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a patient at Knoydart needed urgent medical treatment. As no other boat was available, the life- boat E. M....
Weyward
Weymouth, Dorset - At 1.48 p.m. on llth March, 1970, the coastguard reported that a small boat was in difficulties in Ringstead bay, one mile off shore. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 2.1. There was a moderate...
Mr P Denham Christie Chairman
Mr P. Denham Christie, chairman of the Boat Committee, on behalf of the Institution receives from HRH The Duke of Edinburgh a Design Council Award certificate for the Arun class lifeboat. Facsimiles of the certificate have been sent to each... - View image in PDF
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