LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Thomas Rees, of Angle
Coxswain Thomas Rees, who died at the age of seventy-eight, was coxswain of the Angle life-boat for fifteen years, from 1906 until 1920, when he retired on account of old age. His most notable service was performed as a member of the crew in...
Category: Obituaries
Gwynronald
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the night of the 19th September flares were seen about three miles N.E. of the life-boat station. They were repeated shortly after and the motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.30 P.M.
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Gem and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 on the morning- of the 30th of October, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat three quarters of a mile north of Whitby was burning flares.
Five minutes later the no. 1 life-boat...
Rennyhill
Aberdeen.—At 2.11 early on the morning of the 29th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that he had heard long and short blasts on a siren from a vessel near the harbour or lighthouse. He later stated that the lighthouse keeper...
Adroity
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 6.29 on the evening of the 12th of March, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker Adroity, of London, had run on the sands about two miles south-east- by-east of the coastguard station. At 7.20 the...
Olivia
Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.47 on the night of the 5th of March, 1957. a message was received that the schooner Olivia, of Plymouth, needed help four miles off Eddystone. At 10.5 the life- boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rozi'se put out in a...
A Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 5th of August, 1957, the life-boat Watkin Williams took part in a combined helicopter and life-boat exercise. At the end of the exercise a strong easterly wind sprang up, with a very rough sea, and it was impossible...
Amstelstroom
Appledore, Devon.—During a thick fog in the early hours of the morning of the 18th of July, 1948, the motor ship Amstelstroom, of Amsterdam went aground on the rocky coast of Lundy Island. Her crew of eleven got...
A Speed Boat
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 4.30 a.m. on 22nd September, 1969, the honorary secretary received an anticipatory message from the coastguard reporting that a speedboat with three men on board was overdue from a fishing trip. At 8.13 the coastguard...
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RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She...