LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anco Spur
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.35 p.m. on 3rd October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a shipping agency had asked for a doctor to be taken out to the Swedish tanker Anco Spur to attend to an injured man. It was one hour after low water...
Ocean Breaker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater...
Dot
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a local fishing boat was flying a distress signal about two miles south-east of the harbour. The life-boat Greater London (Civil Service...
Jacqueline
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 5.4 on the after- noon of the 8th of September, 1957, the harbour master reported that a small fishing boat was drifting towards White Strand. The life-boat Helena Harris—Manchester and District XXXI was launched at...
Beatrice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 6.51 on the evening of the 20th of September, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a local fishing boat was anchored south of the har- bour entrance. At 7.2 the life-boat Louise Stephens was...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 6.12 p.m. on 18th September, 1966, the police informed the coxswain that a skin diver was in difficulties under the cliff between the life-boat station and the coastguard lookout. The coxswain rang the coastguard...
Orwell
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9 a.m. on 25th February, 1967, a message wasreceived that a local doctor wanted the assistance of the life-boat to land the master of the motor vessel Orwell. The vessel was due at St. Ives at 9.20 in a near gale...
Dr. Joseph Soar M.B.E
The death is also announced of Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., who was honorary secretary at St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, from 1926 to 1963. In 1943 he received the bronze medal of the Institution for the part he played in the...
Category: Obituaries
Voluntary System
Delegates at the conference of voluntary life-boat organisations held at Malmoin Sweden, 28th-31st May, 1972, unanimously expressed their belief in the 'overwhelming advantages of the voluntary system' for the provision of an...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (9)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.25 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a message was received that a dinghy was in difficulties in the Sound of Arisaig, off Glenuig. The life-boat E.M.M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her moorings at 5.35 in a fresh south south...