LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welsh Girl
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that the local fishing boat Welsh Girl had gone aground on the South Bank at the harbour bar. At 4.15 the...
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FISHING BOAT'S ENGINE FAILED Peel, Isle of Man.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 29th of June, 1947, it was reported that a vessel was flying distress signals and making flares about five miles north-east of Peel, and the motor...
Paschal
FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 10.45 on the morning of the 15th August, 1962, Valentia radio station reported that the trawler Paschal of Lorient, which had a crew of thirteen, had fouled her propeller and needed help immediately...
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Aith, Shetlands - At 9 p.m. on 6th August, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that an injured man on Foula Island urgently needed hospital attention. At 10.15 the life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane left her moorings...
John Dory
Two capsizes A SMALL COBLE, John Dory, with four anglers on board was reported capsized close inshore off Cullercoats, l'/2 miles north of Tyne Piers, on Sunday morning February 22. The message came toTyne Coastguard from the coble...
The Late Thomas Wilson, Esq.
IT is with extreme regret that we have to announce the decease of this much-lamented and valued gentleman, by which event the Shipwreck Institution has been deprived of one of its founders, and of its first Chairman of Committee. For a...
Category: Obituaries
Spurn Head Lifeboat Station By Christopher R Elliott
WHEN i WORKED for a weekly newspaper in the late 1940s on the Grimsby/ Cleethorpes side of the Humber I used to dream of visiting Spurn Head on the Yorkshire side. Certainly, when viewed through one of the telescopes on the front on a clear...
Category: Articles
The French Life-Boat Service
IN June we were honoured by a visit from the COMTE DE BIZEMONT, the Chief Inspector of our sister service in France, and we need hardly say it was a great pleasure to welcome him and show him what he required to see. Among other things the...
Category: Articles
Pepita
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor barge Pepita had broken down with engine trouble near Andrew's Spit.
At...
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Lerwick, Shetland*. At 1.45 on the after- noon of 27th January, 1961, the Medical Officer of Health for Shetland told the honorary secretary that a woman had been blown over by the wind on Fair Isle and had been badly injured, and that it...