LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.

At 3.45 the patient and nurse...

High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...

HOLYHEAD.—The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was called out on service on the 1st February by signals of distress shown by the s.s. Meath, of Sunderland, which had stranded at Penrhyn Point in a strong gale from the W.N.W. and a very heavy sea....

TOWED TO SHELTER At 11.50 a.m. on 2nd May, 1964, the owner of the motor fishing vessel Virgin IV of Campbeltown told the honorary secretary that his vessel, having fouled her propeller earlier that morning, might be in trouble in worsening...

DECEMBER 21ST. - SWANAGE, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 10.27 in the morning the Swanage coastguard telephoned that the naval officer in charge at Poole wished the Swanage life-boat to go to the help of an escort vessel which had capsized three...

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Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 1st of February, 1960, the life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched in a light south- easterly wind and a rough sea, as five local fishing cobles were at sea and the weather was...

Inaugural Ceremony by the Prince of Wales, K.G.

THE PRINCE or WALES, as President of the Institution, on 10th July named the new Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tion.