LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: January 1987 Cyril Mayo, chairman of Warmley branch since 1974, two years after he first became a member. He was awarded a statuette in 1983.
February 1987 Robert...
Category: Obituaries
Eureka
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4.10 A.M. on the 3rd September, 1939, it was reported that a vessel was showing distress signals about one and a half miles south of Walton Pier. The weather was clear with a strong...
Life-Boat Builders By Tradition
THE firm of J, Samuel White & Co., Ltd., of Cowes, has been building ships in the Isle of Wight for more than two and a half centuries. During the greater part of that time the firm has been closely associated with the Life- boat...
Category: Articles
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
Category: Services
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
An Open Fishing Boat
Six fishermen saved by crew member in open fishing boatEamonn O'Leary, a member of Dun Laoghaire's All-weather lifeboat crew, has been awarded the Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum for a rescue which he carried out...
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DOCTORS TAKEN FOR EMERGENCY OPERATION Troon, Ayrshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 1st April, 1962, the coxswain received a request from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the lifeboat to take two doctors to Lamlash to perform an...
Canoes
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 12.30 p.m. on 8th March, 1964, the lifeboat Dunleary II went to the mouth of the River Liffey to escort several canoes across Dublin Bay. The canoes had taken part in a race organized in connection with the...
The Patrol Boat Joseph
NOVEMBER 22ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 7.5 in the evening the naval authorities asked for the services of the lifeboat for a patrol boat which was in difficulties near the mouth of the harbour and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott...