LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1959, it was decided that the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted should launch to escort several local fishing cobles, which were returning to harbour in rapidly worsening...
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1959 has been won by Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre for the rescue of the crew of the coaster Hindlea, which went aground in a hurricane on the...
Category: Awards
MacCoy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 5.45 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1950, the Porthscatho coastguard telephoned that the local motor pleasure boat MacCoy needed help. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood,...
Roma II
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.40 on the night of the 10th of August, 1950, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat in distress off Broome Hill, Camber • Sands. Ten minutes later the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a calm sea,...
A Sailing Dinghy
Broken mast A RED BAY CREW MEMBER, N. Murray, saw from his home a sailing dinghy in trouble on Saturday, June 12. He informed the deputy launching authority and the call out was signalled at 1915.
The ILB launched three...
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EMPTY ROWING BOAT TOWED TO HARBOUR Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the morning of the llth June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was drifting a mile and a half north-north-east of Orlock. The life-boat...
Book Reviews
Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...
Category: Articles
Deeside
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 5.35 a.m.
on 17th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sick man aboard the m.f.v. Deeside required hospital treatment. The lifeboat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was...
Zerobe
At 3.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1967, information was received that the yacht Zerobe, with her sails gone, was in tow nine miles south east of Southwold. Thetow line had parted twice. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 4.40...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland - At 11.25 P-m- on 22nd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five students who had gone to the inner Fames island had not returned to Durham University.
The life...