LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Barra Island, Inverness-shire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 25th of October, 1957, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would convey a patient, who was dangerously ill, to Lochbois- dale for hospital treatment. At 9.15 the...
Roger Aubert
Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the morning of the 28th February it was reported that a small vessel was dragging her anchors. She was the ketch Roger Aubert, of Paimpol, bound with a cargo of coal, and a crew of five, from Swansea to St. Brieuc...
Rostellecois
Padstow, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 19th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a boat near Stepper Point in a dangerous position. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. Flares of distress were seen later and...
Tam o’ Shanter
APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Joybell
Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
Category: Articles
Dinghies and Viveuse
Swanage, Dorset - At 1.58 p.m. on 2Oth May, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in need of assistance off Poole Bar buoy. Later two other dinghies were reported in trouble. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 2.30 in a fresh south...
An Ex-R.A.F. Launch
Torbay, Devon. At 2.10 on the morn- ing of the 20th of March,1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a 30-feet ex R.A.F. launch with two men on board was overdue on a passage from Portland to Torquay and that he had...
Coxswain Ron Cannon
Coxswain Ron Cannon Received ihe Silver Medal tor his "...enormous .'OUMi!o. determination and seamanship...' during a service to .1 disabled yacht in I uro: ~ si-iles .ind rough sets See Ihe Spring 2IMM hsue for ihe full... - View image in PDF
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Christmas Morn
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 12.55 p.m. on 28th July, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties two miles north east of Scarfskerry.
The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31)...