LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Stingray and Welsh Lady III
At 2.58 p.m. on 23rd June, 1965, the honorary secretary in consultation with the coxswain decided that the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall, should be launched to escort two local motor fishing vessels to harbour in view of the bad weather...
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Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...
Fishing Boats
GALE BLOWING At 10.10 a.m. on 29th March, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the sea was becoming dangerous on the harbour bar, and at 10.13 tne life* boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
A gale was...
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Galway Bay - At 4.35 p.m. on 6th March, 1967, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a patient on Inishere Island had acute appendicitis and needed to be taken to hospital. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson slipped her...
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At 11.40 a.m. on iyth March, 1967, the the local nurse told the honorary secretary that a man who was seriously ill needed to be taken to hospital on the mainland.
The man was embarked and the life-boat Mabel Marion...
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Galway Bay - At 9.30 p.m. on ist June, 1967, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a 12 year old boy, who had been seriously injured in a fall from his bicycle to hospital on the mainland. The life-boat...
After Cracking Their Way Through L'/2 Inches of Ice Members of the Dolphin Sub Aqua Club In Cirencester
After cracking their way through l'/2 inches of ice, members of the Dolphin Sub Aqua Club in Cirencester took part in a sponsored dive at South Cerney Lakes on Boxing Day in 1981. Eight divers took part and as a result £202.50 was... - View image in PDF
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Filey's
Triumphant Julie Davidson receives her •crown from Filey's Coxswain Frank Jenkinson.
Her title, Filey Lifeboat Queen 1983-4, is contested each year in aid of the station.
Gordon Warley, of Primrose... - View image in PDF
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Henley-On-Thames
Only RNLI supporters could find a way of feeding the swans and ducks on the Thames and collecting money for lifeboats simultaneously.
At Henley-on-Thames the branch has arranged to fill this bin with unsold loaves, kindly... - View image in PDF
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There Are 199 Steps Up Church Stairs In Whitby
There are 199 steps up Church Stairs in Whitby and Mrs Eileen Whittingham (above) climbed them all last May. Her effort was considerably more than it sounds because she carried it out on artificial limbs, her legs having been amputated... - View image in PDF
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