LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Lightship Tender Roaming
Arklow, Co. W'icklow.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, four boys walking on the beach near Arklow Rock heard shouts through dense fog from a vessel ashore.
The vessel was asking for a...
Unity
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 11.5 on the night of the 22nd of March,-1954, the Southend coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Unity, of Inverness, which had a crew of eight, had wirelessed that she had gone aground off the cliffs...
The S.S. Ousel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 2.15 on the morning of the 8th of January, 1957, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Ousel, of Liverpool, when at anchor, had been struck by another vessel off Rock Ferry. At 2.30 the life-boat Norman...
St. Gerrard
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.17 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1957, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary he had heard from a pilot that flares were being fired by a boat about one mile south of Arklow har- bour. At 6.30 the...
St. Nicholas
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore at Beggars Scalp off Seacliff coastguard look-out, but was in no apparent danger. Twenty...
Virgin IV
AGROUND IN FOG Dunbar, East Lothian. At 2.54 p.m. on 6th October, 1965, the coastguard reported that the m.f.v. Virgin IV had run aground in fog on Long Craig rock, half a mile west of the harbour.
The life-boat Margaret...
Angus Rose
Montrose, Angus - At 8.25 a.m. on I3th January, 1967, a fishing vessel was reported on the rocks between Scurdyness and Usan. The life-boat The Good Hope was launched at 8.45 in a gentle west south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was four...
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Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.53 p.m.
on 9th July, 1967, it was reported that a soldier had been reported washed out to sea between Linney Head and Trains Lake sands. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
Edwin Distin
Edwin Distin The death occurred in October of ex- Coxswain Edwin Distin, aged 82, the last surviving member of the crew of the Salcombe, Devon, lifeboat disaster of 1916. He held the RNLI's silver and bronze medals. His son, Coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
Listings
Alan Fisher - Skegness Lifeboat Operations Manager Dr Elizabeth Hodges - Burnham-on-Sea lifeboat station Lifeboat Medical Adviser Retirements Alan Faragher - Berwick lifeboat station Chairman Eifion Jones - Moelfre lifeboat station Deputy...
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