LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 23rd of November, 1955, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing coble Premier, which had been at sea since daybreak. The weather was worsening, and at 11.45 the life-boat Annie...
Royal Humane Society Award
DR. C. V. KAULA has been awarded a testimonial on vellum by the Royal Humane Society for his services in going to the help of the keeper of the St. Helen's Fort at Spithead, who was seriously ill. The Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat...
Category: Awards
Michael Griffiths
On the 31st of January, 1953, two members of the crew of the Islay. Inner Hebrides, life-boat collapsed in the engine-room and died while the life- boat was searching for the trawler Michael Griffiths. This was the day on which the Princess...
A Rowing Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that two men in a row- ing boat two miles south of Peveril Point were shouting for help, and at 2.25 the life-boat R.L.P. was...
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.30 early on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1954, the Fire Brigade reported that firemen at Rosemullion Head were hauling two men up a cliff. The men had been in a fourteen-feet dinghy with another man, but the...
Spes Melior II
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 1st of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head.
At 1.45 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow was launched. There...
A Dinghy (3)
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 11.44 on the morning of the 6th of August, 1960, the honorary secretary learnt from the Wicklow life-boat station that a dinghy had been seen to capsize off Mizen Head. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 11.51...
Georges Ferges
Lowestoft, Suffolk. During the even- ing of the 6th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary learnt that the traw- ler Georges Ferges of Boulogne would be off Lowestoft at four o'clock the next morning and that medical assistance was...
A Catamaran
Selsey, Sussex. At 10.20 on the morn- ing of the 14th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had burnt flares about a mile south-east of Selsey. A strong west- south-westerly wind was blowing, and the sea...
Mermaid
Coverack, Cornwall. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 26th November, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a resident of St. Keverne that a motor boat appeared to be in distress off the Manacles. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...