LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
They Have Now Been Warned
Two men have been fined £2 each at Tobermory for firing a rocket "for fun" over the Island of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, on the night of the 3rd of January. The rocket was taken for a distress signal and the Barra Island...
Category: Services
A Life-Boat Christmas
IN the article "A Life-boat Christmas," in the last issue of the Journal, it should have been recorded among the visits of life-boats to lightvessels, that the Walton and Frinton boat also went out and took Christmas gifts to the...
Category: Articles
A Steam Trawler
•—• 17th January.
A steam trawler had stranded and her crew were rescued by the life-saving apparatus while the life-boat played her searchlight on the trawler. The owners, Plymouth Trawlers, Ltd., presented a clock to the...
Wallaroo
At 6.20 A.M.
on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.
She had...
Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Life-boat secretary of the Tunbridge Wells branch, Mr. Keppel H. Foote, late district inspector of life-boats, Captain Thomas Pengilly, late coxswain at Clovelly, and ex-Coxswain William Miller, of Eyemouth....
Category: Obituaries
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COASTGUARDSMAN LOWERED TO MAN AFTER CLIFF FALL Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 7.17 on the evening of the 9th May, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man was thought to be trapped on the cliffs at Lands End, but that he could not be...
Myhaven
TOW FOR YACHT AFTER FUEL PIPE CLEARED Arbroath, Angus. At 5.20 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Myhaven had broken down with engine trouble three miles north of the...
Pierre-Louis
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.32 on the night of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground at the end of the north pier of Lowestoft...
Paullgate
MEDALS FOR BLYTH COXSWAIN AND BOWMAN On the 18th November, 1962, the Blyth life-boat rescued two of the crew of the motor vessel Paullgate. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 402, Coxswain Thomas Fawcus was awarded the...
Finlandia
LIFE-BOAT AND TUGS TO HELP OF DUTCH VESSEL St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 4th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch vessel was in distress, and though the position of the...