LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Therm (1)
Blyth, and Tynemouth, Northumber- land. At 1.11 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Tynemouth life-boat station that the Whitley Bay police had reported a small boat in...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
TRAPPED UNDER SAIL Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 3.45 p.m. on nth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized between Brean Down and Cable Beacon.
The life-boat Calouste...
Blue Marlin (1)
At 3.32 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1966, the motor yacht Blue Marlin was seen drifting two miles south of Chichester. At 3.50 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched ina rough sea and a south westerly wind. It was three and a half hours after...
A Boat (1)
Kilmore, Wexford - At 11.15 p.m.
on 8th September, 1966, a small pleasure boat with one man on board was reported overdue. The life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at 11.30. It was high water.
She found the...
A Canoe (1)
At 5.18 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an R.A.F. helicopter had been dispatched to search for a light blue two seater canoe missing between North Foreland and Deal. The canoe was last seen one...
Al Kwather I (1)
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
A Cabin Cruiser (1)
Engine failure A MESSAGE came from Warden Point Coastguard to Sheerness honorary secretary at 0752 on Monday, May 26, to say that a cabin cruiser had broken down near the outfall buoy and groynes half a mile east of Garrison Point. The...
Prince Ivanhoe (1)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
Dijon and Peebles (1)
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
First Knight (1)
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...