LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 207 BOYS SNATCHED FROM BLOCK 208 CASUALTY MIGHT HAVE CAPSIZED 210...
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A Sailing Dinghy (2)
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.32 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from a resident of Egremont that a sailing dinghy had been swamped by the wash from a liner, and that one man was in the water near the...
An Angling Boat
October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of Sheerness that red...
Rosco
On the llth January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was ashore opposite the Saltfleet Coastguard station. A thick fog prevailed at the time, with a moderate breeze and choppy sea. The crew of the...
Spray
Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 in the morn- ing of the 13th of June, 1952, a life- boatman who had returned from fishing, reported a yacht aground north of Looe Channel. The sea was calm, the southerly breeze light, but there was a thick fog. The...
The S.S. Southport
Caister, Norfolk. —At 11.14 in the afternoon, on the 17th of March, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was on the Barber Sands. At 1.30 the life- boat Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a moderate south- westerly...
Tula
Margate, Kent - At 7.3 a.m. on ist October, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Ridge sandbank half a mile south west of the North Tongue buoy. Although no distress signals had been made a passing ship reported that the yacht had a...
Carol Singing
LAST Christmas eleven branches arranged carol-singing parties. The majority were again in the South-East of England. Sussex had parties at East Grinstead, Bognor Regis and Cuckfield; Surrey at Dorking and Leatherhead; Kent at Westerham, and...
Category: Donations
The 18-feet Motor Boat E.M.
Fowey, Cornwall. —• About eleven o'clock in the morning of the 8th of June, 1952, a message was received that a motor boat had reached Fowey and the owner had reported that his friend was missing in the 18-feet motor boat E.M. He had...
Westkust
Scarborough, Flamborough, and Brid- lington, Yorkshire.—On the 9th of December, 1951, the Scarborough life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the Dutch motor vessel Westkust, and the Scarborough bowman lost his life.— Rewards, to FRANK DALTON,...