LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
May
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 5.33 on the afternoon of the 5th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had been seen firing red flares near Arranman's Barrels buoy...
Vives
SICK RADIO OPERATOR BROUGHT ASHORE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1963, Holyhead coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Vives of London was near the breakwater end and needed help. The...
A Whaler
Walmer, Kent.—At 3.55 on the after- noon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a whaler, with six boys from the Royal Marine School of Music on board, needed help three quarters of a mile south-east of Deal. At 4...
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the life-boat honorary secre- tary saw a motor fishing vessel driving towards the north breakwater. At 4.20 the life-boat White Star was launched and made...
El Moroco
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.45 on the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a message was received that a motor vessel was drifting towards Trefusis Point, in Falmouth Harbour. At eight o'clock the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare...
Westward Ho
Aberdeen.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 6th of August, 1955, the coast- guard telephoned that a small boat, with a crew of four, appeared to be in difficulty and drifting southwards two and a half miles south-east of Findon Ness. At four...
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Galway Bay.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 7th of March, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take him to Inishere to attend a maternity case. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put out, with...
A Spanish Medal for Coverack
THE silver prize medal which the Spanish Life-boat Society awarded to Coxswain W. A. Rowe, of Coverack, for the rescue of the crew of seventeen of the steamer Mina Cantiquin, on the 4th of November, 1951, and the diplomas awarded to him and...
Category: Medals
Glenshane
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.56 on the evening of the 2nd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south-south-west of the coastguard look-out at Lydd. At nine o'clock the...
Gloxinia
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boy on board the motor vessel Gloxinia of North Shields had suspected appendicitis and needed medical attention...