LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At 9.45 in the morning of the 30th of October, 1948, a fishing vessel off the pier was seen to burn a flare, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, was launched. She found the local motor...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.15 in the morning of the 23rd of March, 1952, the Swansea Superintendent of Trinity House asked if the life-boat would fetch a sick man from the Helwick Lightvessel as the Trinity House vessel could not make the...

Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 2.5 in the afternoon on the 19th of March, 1950, a message was relayed by the Valentia radio station from the Coningbeg Light- vessel. She asked for the life-boat as a man on board the lightvessel was sick, suffering...

Howth, Co. Dublin.—12th August, 1939. The civic guard had reported that a man was in the sea and was urgently in need of help. The life-boat put out with Mr. H. McCracken. a member of the committee, on board, and in the absence of the...

A seventeen-year-old boy, Andrew Richards of Dolgellau, and his companion, sixteen-year-old Mark Heywood of Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain the...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.31 p.m. on i4th December, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had on board her a man suffering from severe toothache who needed dental treatment. The...

Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1966, the honorary medical adviser requested the services of the lifeboat to convey him to attend a sick man aboard the Russian vessel Alatyrles. At 3.55 the life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...

Birdwatchers on Filey Brigg saw a 2m dinghy capsize in poor weather on 9 September, throwing its two occupants into the water.

Filey’s D class Rotary District 1120 sped to the scene and found one man just about to...