LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Her First Day of Service
The Bridlington motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, escorting in the Scarborough fishing vessel Irene on the 5th December, 1947.
On the same day she helped to refloat a Fraserburgh drifter.
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Adele
At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....
Ark of Connemara
CREW TAKEN OFF MOTOR BOAT IN GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.40 on the evening of the 26th August, 1962, the garda informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen at first in the direction of Rockabill and later from a boat at Lough...
Renown
At 11 A.M. on the 25th February, during a strong N.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Renown, of Girvan, was seen returning from the fishing-grounds. As the sea was heavy and the bar was very bad, it was thought advisable to launch the Life- boat...
A Grand Result
Keith Graham, Exmouth lifeboat coxswain, was at The Anchor public house in Oldbury on Severn on 3 July to receive a cheque for £1,000 which had been raised by pub regulars.
Keith accepted the cheque at a supper which... - View image in PDF
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Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke the New Chief Coastguard
Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke, the new Chief Coastguard,. - View image in PDF
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Jenny Lind
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—At midnight on the 4th January, during a very strong gale from S. by E., a light was observed from a vessel which was apparently ashore in South Bay. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen were at once summoned, and...
The S.S. Thorold
AU G U S T 2 2 N D . - D A V I D ’ S , P E M - BROKESHIRE. At 11.35 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel in distress two miles westward of the Smalls Lighthouse. Permission to launch, was got from the naval authorities, and the motor...
Launcher Will Soon Be 100
Mr. George Carey, of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, who was a launcher at the old Littlestone life-boat station between 1889 and 1895, will be 100 on 27th October, 1968.
It is recalled that, with his brother who...
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