LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Violet
WhitehiUs, Banffshire.—At 10.23 on the night of the 25th of August, 1948, the Banff coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing boat Violet, with a crew of two, was overdue, and fishermen reported flashes a quarter of a mile to the...
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On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...
Sweet Reason
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a local yacht club told the honorary secretary that three yachts were missing in a race. One was thought to be dismasted five miles inside the North Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat...
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Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 12.50 p.m. on 4th May, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a nine year old boy had to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment. As there was no other suitable boat available,...
Endeavour
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 16th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing boat Endeavour had broken down four miles to the north- north-west, and at 4.20 the life-boat George and Sarah...
Good Fellowship
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 8.15 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, it was reported that the local fishing boat Good Fellowship was bound for North Sunderland from Blyth, with a crew of four, and was then east of Newton....
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1953, word was received by the coxswain that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The local fishing boat Lead Us was still at sea, and at 2.40 the No. 1 life-boat...
Why Worry
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.11 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Why Worry, with a crew of two, appeared to have broken down off Trimingham, four miles south-east of Cromer. At...
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URGENT CASE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 12.30 a.m. on I2th May, 1964, the local doctor asked the life-boat to take a patient who needed urgent treatment to the county hospital at Tralee. Because of severe weather no small boat could make the...