LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Aries
The No. 2.
Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was called out on the 16th October by signals of distress from a vessel close to the headland. When the Life-boat reached the vessel she was found to be the s.s. Aries, bound from...
Ragna
Margate, Kent.:—At 7.55 on the evening of the 21st of July, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was on Margate Sands. At 8.7 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The sea was rough •with a moderate...
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Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1954, the life-boat Agu.Ha Wren was launched for a routine exercise in a moderate sea, with a moderate wester- ly breeze blowing. When she was about a mile north of...
Shaheen
Dover, Kent. — About 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1956, a yacht was seen from the eastern arm of the dock, apparently in difficulties off the Forelands. 'The life-boat Southern Africa put out at...
Peggy
MOTOR BOAT TOWED IN Torbay, Devon.—At 1.24 in the morning of the 18th of July, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that an SOS signal had been flashed close under Berry Head to the eastward, and the motor life-boat George Shee was launched...
Linda M.
TWO MEN RESCUED FROM FISHING BOAT Blyth, Northumberland. At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the east pier lighthouse keeper that two men in...
Border King
IN ROUGH SEA Thurso, Caithness-shire. At one minute past midnight on 9th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor fishing vessel Border King that her engine had broken...
A Jet Aircraft
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...
Boats (2)
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling
Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling, Norfolk, who died on 25th February, at the age of eighty-five, joined the Palling Life-boat Crew at the age of eighteen.
Six years later, in 1870, he was appointed Coxswain, and served...
Category: Obituaries