LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Airy Mouse
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th Sep- tember, 1961, relatives of the crew of five of the yacht Airy Mouse telephoned the honorary secretary to say the yacht, which had left Alderney at 11.30 the...
Nell
IN ROUGH SEAS Torbay, South Devon. At 11.28 a.m.
on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a large yacht was anchored off Teignmouth in rough seas and a strong easterly wind. It was three hours...
Valri
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 5.57 a.m. on 23rd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares at Whittaker Beacon. The life-boat Isabella and Edward Irvin was launched at 6.22 in a strong westerly wind...
The Painting Presented to John Dare
The painting presented to John Dare on his retirement as coxswain after 31 years service depicts the Arun City of Plymouth during a service to a yacht at Wembury Rocks.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain David Mason
Bronze Medal Coxswain David Mason of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston for the service to the yacht Olline on 29 August 1996 - see 77w UMxMrt Winter 1996/ 7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain William Catchpole
Bronze Medal Coxswain William Catchpole of Lowestof t for the service to the yacht Red House Lugger on 29 August 1996 - see Tht LHtbott Winter 1996/7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brothers Gem
At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the vessel.
The fog was...
Firms and Their Products
% From the Blue Circle Group, Portland House, Stag Place, London, S.W.I, comes news of an interesting cement application in ship building.
Recently cement mortar covering was applied to the largest yacht in the United...
Category: Articles
An Old Age Pensioner Remembers.
An old age pensioner has sent five shillings to the Institution. He wrote that he had been rescued by the Gorleston life-boat in 1884.
Category: Articles
Wigeon
Adrift OBAN COASTGUARD picked up a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday June 14 from the 20ft yacht Wigeon with an elderly couple on board. Wigeon had broken adrift from a mooring in Craignure Bay, Isle of Mull, her outboard engine...