LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 8.16 on the morning of the 7th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing coble had run aground at the harbour entrance, and that the coast- guard Life-Saving Apparatus Com- pany had been called...

NORTH DEAL, KENT • AND FETHARD, Co. WEXFORD.—The Life-boats placed by the Institution on these stations have recently been replaced by new boats— the North Deal boat being a large sail- ing boat of the self-righting type, named the Charles...

Ex-Coxswain William G. Sutton, of Kingsdowne, who died on 29th Septem- ber at the age of seventy-seven, had been an officer of the life-boat for over sixteen years. He was second cox- swain from 1910 to 1921 and coxswain from then until 1927...

Captain John Williams, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., who died on 6th December, 1937, at the age of seventy-two, had been the Institution's honorary sec- retary and treasurer at Aberdovey since 1925, first of the station, and, when it was closed in...

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service that thej brother of two men in the Coningbeg lightvessel had died. A request was made for the...

COXSWAIN C. R. ELLIS of Clacton, who died on the 2nd January, 1962, had been coxswain of the life-boat from 1924 until 1950, when he retired.

He had previously been second coxswain for four years. Coxswain Ellis was awarded...

Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1959, the assistant honorary secretary was informed that a message had been received from the fishing vessel Coral Isle of North Shields that one of her fishermen was...