LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
White Wave
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in distress and in danger of •drifting ashore three-quarters of a mile west-south-west of Seaford and a half- mile off...
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies: A Correction
IN the October issue of The Life-boat was an article with this heading, and among the corporate bodies mentioned was Lloyd's, donor of a life-boat which bears its name.
It .should have been said that Lloyd's not...
Category: Donations
A Canoe
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
Betsy
DRIFTING FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.15 early on the morning of the 14th June, 1962, the police at Whitehead informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting with three people on board off Black Head. The...
Silver Wings
TOW FOR FISHING VESSEL AFTER ENGINE BREAKDOWN Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.25 early on the morning of the 2nd June, 1963, the Newhaven coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen between three and a half and four...
A Dinghy (1)
MAN FOUND AFTER EIGHT-HOUR SEARCH Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Portree had reported that a man was calling for help from his...
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MAN TAKEN FROM RHUM IN GALE Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 5.50 on the evening of Monday, the 16th September, 1963, the Factor of the island of Rhum telephoned the honorary secretary asking for the help of the life-boat as a man had a...
A Fishing Boat and Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.18 p.m. on zyth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had been called out from Mudeford under the inshore rescue scheme to the help of another boat firing...
The S.S. Pass of Glenogle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 28th of October, 1954, the coxswain overheard a message from the Humber radio station to the port doctor stating that the S.S. Pass of Glenogle, of London, needed a doctor to attend her captain....
Two Station Secretaries
JOHN W. BAYES, M.B.E., honorary secretary at Flamborough from Sep- tember 1920 to July 1954, died on the 24th of November, 1954. For his long and valued services the Institution awarded him binoculars in 1931 and the gold badge in 1948. In...
Category: Obituaries