LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd March, 1967, news was received that a sick child at North Ronaldsay required immediate hospital attention. The patient was embarked on the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman which slipped her mooring...
Two Canoes
At ro.20 a.m. on nth March, 1967, news was received that two canoes had capsized off Swanage pier and that two men were in the water. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.25 m a south south westerly gale and a choppy sea. It was high...
A Fishing Boat
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 5.30 a.m. on 22nd April, 1967, a report was received that a fishing boat was leaking and in danger off Strangford bar.
The life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was launched at 5.45 in a light south...
Tonga
Weymouth, Dorset - At 8.14 p.m. on 23rd July, 1967, news was received that the yacht Tonga was in difficulties with engine trouble and was drifting 17^ miles south south west of Portland Bill. After ascertaining that a tow could not be...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 11.36 p.m. on 24th July, 1967, news was received that six children were missing in the Freshwater area. They were last seen playing on the beach at 6.30. The lifeboat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 11.43. The...
Providence
North-East England Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.50 a.m. on I2th March, 1964, anxiety was felt for the fishing coble Providence which was at sea in deteriorating weather. There was a fresh east-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea, and it...
Osprey
TOWED TO LOWESTOFT Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 24th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted life-boat, Osprey, was burning red flares about one mile east-north-east of the lookout.
The Launch Zingari
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m.
on 4th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor launch was sending up red flares off Sizewell in moderate seas and a gentle east-south-easterly breeze....
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PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 11.40 a.m. on zyth January, 1965, a surgeon at Kirkwall hospital asked the honorary secretary if a life-boat could take an emergency patient from the Island of Eday to the hospital. The lifeboat The John Gellatly...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 10 a.m.
on 26th January, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightvessel to the mainland. The life-boat...