LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Brierley Hill and Kingswinford branch has a caravan, obtained through the good offices of a local benefactor, which can be seen regularly at local fetes and fund raising events. Here it is at Himley Hall Sailing Club's annual 24-hour... - View image in PDF

BROADSTAIRS.— The Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched at 10 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of the brig Guide, which had been in collision in the Downs, and had lost both her anchors. The wind was blowing a strong gale...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At...

Tynemouth, Northumberland. At I p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an attempt was to be made to refloat the Dutch dredger Beverwuck which had gone aground on the i8th November, 1965. The dredger...

Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.50 on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with two people aboard had capsized four miles north-east of Durban Point. At six o'clock the life- boat Watkin...

JANUARY 1992 Albert Watson BEM, coxswain of Cromarty lifeboat from 1934 to 1968 when the station closed. He had been assistant mechanic from 1928 until his appointment as coxswain and was awarded a Silver Medal in 1959..

Cromer, Norfolk. At 6.20 on the evening of the 27th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had broken down and was drifting east of Cromer. At 6.37 the motor vessel Antiquity of London approached the...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker San Cirilo, of London, had asked for a doctor to attend a man suspected of having appendicitis. At 8.45 the life-boat...