LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Overdue THE RELIEF 46ft 9in WATSON LIFEBOAT Sarah Townsend Porritt, on temporary duty at Howth, slipped her moorings and put to sea at 2230 on Sunday October 15, 1978 following a report that a red flashing light and red flares had been...

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Douglas, Isle of Man - At 11.28 a.m.

on 18th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a distress message had been received from the power boat Magnum, which had broken down 15 miles from Douglas...

LEAKING MOTOR BOAT At 4.17 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a white motor boat off South Stack was in trouble.

There was a slight sea with a gentle southwesterly breeze. The tide had been...

.—On the after- noon of the 6th December, information was received here that a large vessel was in a very perilous position in the bay, and the life-boat Richard Lewis, at Penzance, was at once got in readiness, in case her services should...

LONG SERVICE AWARDS THE LONG SERVICE BADGE for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Barra Island Coxswain/Mechanic J. A. Macneil Campbeltown Second Coxswain R. Scally...

— Soon after 1 P.M. on the 27th June, the Coxswain of the Life-boat was called, and in- formed by telephone that a fishing smack was aground on the Cross Ridge.

The sea was rough and a strong N.E.

breeze...

To WILLIAM TOMS, on his retirement, on the closing of the Station, after serving 11J years as Coxswain, and previously 6J years as Second Coxswain of the Looe Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a...