LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Forella
Poole, Dorset. At 12.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was considerably overdue from a fishing trip and that the crew's relatives were becoming...
Lyn II
Clovelly, Devon. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 26th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fish- ing boat Lyn II was reported missing.
Later it was learned that she had...
None
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, the local official of the Northern Lighthouse Board asked for the use of the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper from the Chickens Rock...
A Canoe (2)
Salcombe, Devon. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people in a canoe were stranded on the rocks at Steeple Cove near Bolt Head. At 3.35 on the ebbing tide the...
A Yacht (3)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.56 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a message re- ceived from the police that a yacht had capsized three quarters of a mile off Lee-over-Sand at St....
Indian Summer
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.7 on the afternoon of the llth of April, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was showing distress signals three miles north-east of Langney Point. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was...
None (3)
Galway Bay. At 10.45 on the night of the 19th of November, 1958, the cox- swain received a request from the local doctor for the life-boat to take an expectant mother to the mainland. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
Boats
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the honorary secretary that a small boat fitted with an outboard motor had capsized outside the harbour. At...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the second coxswain that five local fishing cobles were out in bad weather.
The honorary secretary went to...
St. Declan
On the 14th of December, 1950, the Dunmore East life-boat saved the fish- ing boat St. Declan and -rescued her crew of five. The Institution awarded a bar to the bronze medal which he had won in 1941 to Coxswain Patrick Power, the bronze...