LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Alice
Hastings, Sussex. At 11.55 on the morning of the 1st July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that there had been an explosion, followed by fire, on board a vessel about two and a half miles off the Fairlight estate....
In Memory of Grace Darling
THE motor life-boat Herbert Joy, the gift of Mr. Alexander O. Joy, of London, which was at one time sta- tioned at Scarborough, and is now in the Institution's reserve fleet at Poplar, went up the Thames on 24th November to take part in...
Category: Articles
G.B.
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—At about 6 A.M., on the 23rd March, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Charlotte, waa informed that a vessel was firing signals of distress, having stranded on the Manacles rocks. A light wind wag then blowing from N.E.,...
Atbara
CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...
Diadem and Dreadnaught
At 12.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Chief Officer of the Coastguard stating that o fishing-boats were unable to enter the harbour. As there was a very rough sea, and a strong southerly gale was blowing, it was...
Mikasa
At 1 A.M.
on the Hth January, Coxswain John Crocombe, received a message from the Coast-guard Station stating that inform- ation had been received by telephone to the effect that a vessel was firing signals of distress in...
A Small Boat
At 3.45 P.M. on the i 15th December, a message was received j stating that a small boat containing five men had landed on the beach from a vessel which was ashore on the south part of the Brake Sands. The weather at the time was thick and...
Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby
A VERY generous friend of the Life-boat Services of Great Britain and Norway passed away by the death on the llth November last, at the age of seventy- five, of Miss Caroline Georgina Harvey, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. She had lived there for...
Category: Obituaries
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Girvan, Ayrshire. About six o'clock on the evening of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from the man in charge of the lighthouse supply boat at Ailsa Craig that a quarryman was suffering from a badly...
Mia Madre E. (1)
RAMSGATE AND DEAL.—On the 25th August, at about 3 A.M., signals were shown from the Gull Light-ship, and the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, and the Van Kook Life-boat, stationed at Deal, proceeded to the Goodwin...