LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bohemian Girl and Prefect
Stromness, Orkney.—At 11.80 P.M. On the 2nd July the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Wick wireless station had received news of a trawler ashore on North Ronaldshay. There was a thick fog at the time, with a moderate S.E. wind and...
Elsquir
YACHT'S ENGINE FAILED Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.38 in the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht was in difficulties, drifting towards the Inner Shoal, and the motor life-boat Michael...
Glenwood
Ramsgate, Kent. — On the 6th of February, 1948, the motor barge Glen- wood, of Rochester, bound for Newport in the Isle of Wight, got into difficulties off Dumpton Gap. She was seen by the North Goodwin Light-vessel, which sent...
A Yacht (4)
SUFFERING FROM EXPOSURE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.20 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted two miles north-east of Moelfre Island and at 3.27 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched with the...
Arctic Brigand
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 12.30 on the 5th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a man on board the trawler Arctic Brigand who was suffering from an epileptic fit and required immediate medical attention....
Blandford
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.8 a.m. on 4th March, 1966, a message was received that the tanker Blandford had a sick man on board and that the services of a doctor were urgently required. After contacting a doctor the life-boat Edian...
A Small Solent Seagull Class Sailing Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of June, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small Solent Seagull Class sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Milford Beach. At 8.20 he telephoned again...
Christina Peter
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 on the even- ing of the 2nd of October, 1952, the Deal coastguard rang up to say a woman had reported that her husband, his friend and a child had put out on a fishing trip in the outboard motor boat Christina Peter,...
Trawler Strikes Cliff-Face
A SERVICE carried out by a reserve life-boat, which resulted in the saving of three lives, has led to the award of the bronze medal for gallantry to the Howth coxswain, Joseph McLoughlin.
The first intimation of a boat in...
Category: Services
None (6)
MISSING ON CLIFFS At 10.32 p.m. on I2th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy was missing on Amroth cliffs. There was a smooth sea with very little wind. The tide had been ebbing for one hour when the...