LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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ISLAND CALL At 2.15 p.m. on 3rd November, 1963, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick patient on Inishmaan Island needed hospital treatment. There was a fresh easterly breeze with a moderate sea. The tide was ebbing....
Irish Silver Medallist
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the silver medal to Coxswain Richard Walsh of Rosslare Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 27th of March, 1961, the honorary secretary noticed that six local fishing boats were still at sea. At 10.10, when the life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth was launched, there was a fresh...
A Pram Dinghy
ADRIFT AND LEAKING Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.33 a-mon 2nd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two small boys were adrift in a pram dinghy which was leaking and oar-less in the outer harbour. There was a moderate...
Mayflower
LOBSTER BOAT SOUGHT Anxiety was felt about the local lobster fishing boat Mayflower which had put out at ii a.m. on i6th March, 1964, and had not returned five hours later. Weather conditions were rapidly deteriorating and there was a full...
Fishing Cobles
COBLES ESCORTED Filey, Yorkshire. At 8 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the life-boat second coxswain reported that six local fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather. At 8.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted was launched with the...
A Fishing Ketch
SEARCHED IN VAIN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 7.50 a.m. on 20th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Weston police had reported that an elderly man was missing from a small fishing ketch somewhere between...
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PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 9.30 a.m. on 25th April, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a patient from Kilronan to the mainland. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was high water. The patient...
Helsinki 1975
The Twelfth International Life-boat Conference will be held in Helsinki in the first week of June, 1975..
Category: Meetings
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SICK CHILD At 4.30 p.m. on 25th January, 1966, the local Medical Officer of Health informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick child with suspected appendicitis who needed immediate hospital treatment, and because of the rough sea...