LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boat Aground Off Buckie
AT 1.22 on the morning of 10th October, 1967, the honorary secretary of the Buckie life-boat station, Mr. A. J. I. Wilson, learnt from the coastguard that a fishing boat was aground on the West Muck rocks about a quarter of a mile north west...
Category: Services
Eurylochus
Penlee, Cornwall. At 1.30 p.m. on I2th June, 1965, the port medical officer asked for assistance. The m.v. Eurylochus, of Piraeus, had a sick man on board and was making for Mounts Bay where she was due to arrive at about 3.30. The doctor...
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours List published in June - K.B.E.
Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh C. Martell, K.B.E., C.B., who was ex-officio on the Committee of Management of the...
Category: Awards
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LIFE-SAVING COMPANY RESCUES TWO FROM CLIFFS Padstow, Cornwall. At six o'clock on the evening of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man and a woman were cut off by the tide at the foot of high...
Avalon II
Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
Her...
Barry Bennett Has Been Coxswain of St.Mary's, Isles of Scilly Lifeboat Since 1991.
Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.
Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Eminence, of Rochester
NOVEMBER 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 7.25 at night a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that the S.S.
Eminence, of Rochester, had anchored in Torbay. She had a man on board with an injured...
Good with Food
Staff and customers at The Co-operative Food stores in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man took up the challenge of raising £90,000 in 90 days earlier this year, from SOS Day to the end of April.
From a...
Category: Articles
Narwal
MAY 17TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 8.30 A.M. the coxswain received information from the Pembrey coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties on the Cefn Sidan Sands, and at 9.25 A.M. the motor life-boat William...