LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. C. Stacey Hall, of Bournemouth
Mr. Charles Stacey Hall, F.C.I.S., for twenty-eight years Assistant Town Clerk to the Bournemouth Corporation, who died on 14th August, at the age of sixty-four, had been for thirty- three years associated with the Institu- tion's work...
Category: Obituaries
Francis M. Dee
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1953.
the coastguard rang up to say that the Barrow Deep lightvessel had reported that a man in a cabin cruiser which had broken down, had made fast to...
Kindly Light
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the weather worsened while the local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat W.R.A. was launched. The sea was rough, with a whole...
Pedler
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 27th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Pedler, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Primrose Valley. A fishing coble and another vacht went to her help, and at...
Conference In South Wales
AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Committee
A Rowing Boat
On the morning of the 21st October three young men left harbour in a rowing boat.
The weather was squally and the boat soon became unmanageable. The wind strengthened until it was blowing a moderate gale from the...
Prim
Fowey, Cornwall.—During the morn- ing of the 15th of January, 1950, the Polruan coastguard had under observa- tion a fishing boat with a motor boat in tow. At 12.10 in the afternoon he reported that the boats were in distress about two miles...
Barnet
Penlee, Cornwall.—About 1.15 in the afternoon, on the 15th of July, 1950, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the trawler Barnet was drifting ashore about a mile east of Penzance lighthouse. She was engaged in the refloating operations...
French Fishing Vessels
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.19 on the evening of the 18th June, 1951, the coxswain reported that a French fish- ing vessel had gone on the Brake Sands. At 5.24 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her moorings. The sea...
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Coverack, Cornwall.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported a little girl cut off by the tide in Coverack Bay. A small boat went out but failed to find her.