LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Anstruther, Fifeshire. —• During the morning of the 19th December, 1938, it was learned that the boatman who took stores to May Island had been unable, owing to bad weather, to make the trip for five days, and that the twenty-eight people on...
C. Sadikoglu, of Turkey
Plymouth, Devon.—At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1957, a message was received that a vessel had broken down a mile and a half south of the breakwater. At 3.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Romse put out....
Manta
The following life-boat service should have been included in the September, 1967, issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
Arklow, Wicklow - At 12.15 p.m. on 3rd May, 1967, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the motor...
Maria Kristna
Walmer, Kent - At 4.15 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, a cabin cruiser was seen in a dangerous position four and a half miles from the South Goodwin lightvessel. This area, where there are many wrecks, is known to dry out at low water. The lifeboat...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the chairman of the branch, who was acting as honorary secretary, that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half from South Pirsey...
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Dover, Kent. At 7.17 on the evening of the 27th of October, 1960, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a man on a bicycle had gone over the wall into the eastern dock. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out...
Coxswain W. J. Harvey
COXSWAIN W. J. HARVEY of Newhaven, who died on the 27th March, 1962, had been a member of the Newhaven crew for twenty-two years. He was appointed coxswain in 1948 and retired in 1961. Coxswain Harvey, who was an employee of British Railways...
Category: Obituaries
Dos Amigos
WRECKAGE SIGHTED Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 3.45 p.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Dos Amigos of Newlyn had been reported missing....
Josephine
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 a.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the Norwegian motor vessel Helene was reported to have a motor yacht in tow, and to have asked to be relieved of the tow at the Nab. The coastguard was not successful in finding a...
Busby
Margate, Kent. At 6.16 p.m. on 8th December, 1965, the coastguard informed the second coxswain that there was a small motor vessel ashore on Margate Sands.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at...