LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
At the last annual meeting of the Com- mittee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, chief clerk of the House of Lords, the honorary secretary, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.E.G.S., reported that during the past year...
Category: Meetings
Rapid
Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...
A Parachute
JANUARY 26TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 1.15 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat should be launched as a parachute had been seen in the sea two and a half miles to the north-east; the motor life-boat The Lord...
Award to Falmouth Coxswain
MR. C. H. BROWN, coxswain of the Falmouth life-boat, has been awarded a certificate by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a young boy from the sea near Falmouth.
Coxswain Brown has served with the Falmouth life-boat...
Category: Awards
Peggy, of Lowestoft
Margate, Kent. — At about 8.45 P.M.
on the 16th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a vessel near the Long Nose Rock, two miles east of the life-boathouse, was burning flares. A fresh E.S.E. breeze was blowing,...
A Ketch
8th February. A ketch had run ashore but was found to have been abandoned.—Rewards, £26 15s..
Drig
Walmer. Kent. — At 6.58 on the evening- of the 1st of July, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned that three people in a dinghy could be seen wav- ing a flag on a stick in Pegwell Bay.
At 7.3 the life-boat Charles Dibdin...
Tam-o'-Shanter
FOWEY.—At about 12.30 A.M., on the 18th November, a flare-up light was shown by the schooner Tam-o'-Shanter, of Goole, bound from Dartmouth for Par in ballast, which was drifting before a heavy E. gale in the direction, of the...
The S.S. Stassa, of Panama
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...
A Converted Ship's Boat
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been keeping a converted ship's boat under observation for some time as she was...