LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 11.30 p.m.
on 8th January, 1967, the surgeon of Kirkwall hospital informed the honorary secretary that a child at North Ronaldsay was suffering from acute appendicitis and should be transferred to...
Lepanto, of Grimsby
At 5.40 a.m. on 24th March, 1967, news was received that the trawler Lepanto of Grimsby was on fire about 18 miles east north east of Flamborough Head. There was a fresh west by northerly breeze with a moderate sea.
It was...
Golden Chance
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 10.56 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, it was reported that a fishing coble, with two men aboard, was anchored about twomiles south of the harbour on a lee shore in heavy seas. She was flying a distress signal. The...
A Canoe
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.50 a.m.
on gth June, 1967, it was felt that two people who had put out in a canoe from Weymouth beach might be in difficulties.
The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...
Elvina
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.50 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, news was given that the yacht Elvina, in a position four miles north north west of the life-boat house, was making no headway against the wind and tide and was drifting out to sea. Her...
Happy Aggie
Plymouth, Devon - At 8.2 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard toldthe honorary secretary that two people were cut off by the tide at Freathy. The IRB was launched at 8.15. The life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station,...
Dos Amigos
WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing....
Guus
HELP FOR DUTCH Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 9.25 p.m. on zoth June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch trawler Guus was making for Hartlepool with a sick man aboard and that a helicopter had been alerted. At 10.25 the...
Prins Boudewijn
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 7.50 a.m.
on 25th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Belgian trawler Prins Boudewijn of Ostend had been reported on fire one mile west of St. Anne's Head. There was...
Bradley
THREE RESCUED Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 1.41 a.m.
on 24th May, 1964, the Castletown coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local motor boat Bradley was reported to have broken down if miles west of Chicken Rock...