LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March
MARCH Launches 63. Lives rescued 75.
MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They...
Category: Services
Four Life-Boats Are Named. Countess Howe at Yarmouth
OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
Imperial Prince
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the morning of the 24th January there was a very urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishere, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. The sea was very rough and the wind so strong that no boat...
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MATERNITY CALL Galway Bay. At 11.30 a.m. on 8th April, 1964, the nurse on Middle Island told the honorary secretary that a maternity patient needed hospital treatment on the mainland. As no other boat was available the honorary secretary...
Clan Maclver
SICK MAN At 1.30 p.m. on nth March, 1966, the coxswain received a telephone call from a doctor that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to bring a sick man off the motor vessel Clan Maclver. At 3.30 the life-boat was launched in a strong...
Neptune
CALL TO COBLE At i.io p.m. on 2Oth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Neptune had sprung a leak while crabbing near Hornsea.
A helicopter from Leconfield was standing by the...
In Support of the Nottingham Lifeboat Appeal the 37Ft Oakley Relief Lifeboat J G Graves
In support of the Nottingham lifeboat appeal, the 37ft Oakley relief lifeboat J. G. Graves of Sheffield last summer made a trip up the River Trent and other inland waterways to Nottingham, Newark and Lincoln. Lt Cdr Andrew Forbes, former... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Dinghy in distress The volunteers at Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station in Somerset were out on exercise on 19 February 2006 when a call came to assist dinghy sailor Tanya Tucker. The boom clip to her mast had broken, causing repeated capsizing...
Some swim
A Wicklow family brought their yacht across Ireland by canal to the Shannon estuary in June. On the last Saturday of the month, the skipper stopped to erect the mast but drifted onto rocks 1½ miles east of Aughinish. Kilrush’s B class...
Category: Articles