LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Out in the cold
When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’
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Blakeney Dawn
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY LIGHTVESSEL The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 12th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-south-east of the Scar...
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Award to the Women Launchers of Dungeness
ON the 8th of October a whole gale was blowing at Dungeness, Kent, from South by East, a very heavy sea was running and it was raining very heavily.
A London barge, the Shamrock, bound with a cargo to the Isle of Wight,...
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Father and son stranded FOUR MINUTES from the time the honorary secretary was alerted, Hastings' 16ftD class inflatable lifeboat was launched, manned by Helmsman Chris Cooper and Crew Members Graham Furness and Steven Martin. It was 1604...
Three Fine Services In February. Thurso, Plymouth and Stromness
THE month of February was marked by three fine services, two in the north of Scotland and the other in the south of England. One was performed by the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat at Thurso, the others by new Motor Life-boats of the Barnett...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. April 1st to June 30th
Greater London.
CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.
CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.
ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 7.30 P.M. on the llth December, in answer to an urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishnaine, for a priest to administer last rites to a dying man. No other...
The Venezuelan Destroyer Nueva Esparta
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat coxswain received a link telephone call from the Venezuelan destroyer Nueva Esparta, which was undergoing gunnery trials in the Irish Sea, that a...