LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Zephyr
DECEMBER 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 10.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing coble Zephyr, with a crew of three, was flying distress signals about one and a half milesN.E. of Whitby Rock...
A Vellum for Southend-On-Sea.
Coxswain Sydney Page, of Southend-on-Sea, has won the thanks of the Institution on vellum for rescuing the crew of a yacht which had gone aground on a sandbank in the Thames estuary in a gale. The night was very dark, with mist; the tide was...
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Two Fishing Cobles
— At 3.30 A.M. on the 15th Juno two of the fishing cobles were observed trying to make for the harbour. There was a heavy gale blowing from S.S.E., and it was evident that they could not cross the bar without considerable risk to the men...
Mrs Phyllis Duckworth,
MAY 1998 Mrs Phyllis Duckworth, former chairman and secretary of the Caversham branch. Mrs Duckworth was a member and chairman of the Reading and district branch for many years until 1979 when she founded the Caversham ladies guild which...
Category: Obituaries
Arion, of Workington
On the 7th October the brig- antine Arion, of Workington, coal laden, ran aground on the bar ofi' Dundalk, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time, with a high sea running. The Dun- dalk life-boat was at once launched and...
Notes of the Quarter
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
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Effort
The ketch Effort, of Southampton, stranded on the Shingle Bank during a N.E. gale, on the 22nd January, and the heavy seas made a clean breach over her. At 5.30 P.M. the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched and proceeded to. the as-...
Reward
Shortly after 6 A.M.
on the 4th April, it was reported that a vessel was on the rocks east of Fair- light Coastguard Station, and that she was showing flares for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Arkcoll was...
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Dunbar, East Lothian. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up the coxswain to say that the police had reported that three people and a dog were cut off by the tide half a mile west of Dunbar....
Notes on the Quarter
A NEW SETTING for the R.N.L.I.'s annual general meeting was the occasion for a major policy statement, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.G.B., D.S.O., took the opportunity of offering, to adapt an American political...
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