LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 5.45 A.M. on the 4th September the Coast- guard received a telephonic message from the Gunfleet Light-house, stating that a schooner was on the sands.
Without delay the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 proceeded under...
Saint Austell
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...
Active
Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick woman on the island was in need of medical treat- ment. As there was no doctor on the island and it was...
Deaths
Deaths In the past few months a number of lifeboatmen well known on the coast have passed away.
Ex-Coxswain Harold J. Hayles, B.E.M., who retired from the Yarmouth, I.o.W., life-boat in September, 1971, died in...
Category: Obituaries
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Seaham, Durham.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a boy had been cut off by the tide at Pincushion Rock, Ryhope. Ten min- utes later the life-boat George Elmy was launched. The...
In the Nick of Time
The Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Coxswain J. Mercer, of Walmer, for taking the life-boat across the Goodwin Sands by night in a rough sea and -rescuing the crew of 13 of a naval launch. At times there was only a...
Category: Articles
A Lighter
Padstow, Cornwall.—During the afternoon of the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a lighter drifting five to six miles N.N.W. of Trevose Head. It was not known whether there was anyone on board. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, and...
A Fishing Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the night of the 2nd of August, 1949, a moderately strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 9.50 the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties and had...
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The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 30th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Fordfield had sighted a floating body a mile and a half from Helwick Passage buoy and that she would stand...