LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sailing Dinghy Sea Elf
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 21st August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off Howick Seahouses farm.
At 3.58 on the ebbing tide the...
Balnagask
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 5.33 on the evening of the 19th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaiy that red flares had been seen north of the coastguard look-out. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Marie McClements
FISHING VESSEL AGROUND ON ROCKS Cloughey, Co. Down. At 8.42 on the morning of the 29th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Marie McClements of Portavogie was aground near the South Rock. The...
Schoolgirl's Life-Boat Song
When the honorary secretary of the Pinner branch, Mrs. Carver, visited the Pinnerwood Primary School to empty the collecting box she was greeted withlife-boat song composed by Susan Tublin aged ten, who had trained the choir composed of...
Category: Articles
Loch Dunvegan
CARGO VESSEL ON FIRE BELOW DECKS Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 5.30 on the morning of Wednesday the llth September, 1963, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary advis- ing that the 700-ton cargo vessel Loch Dunvegan, loaded...
An Aeroplane
3rd July. An aeroplane of Cobham's Air Routes, Ltd., crashed off the Needles.
A steamer picked up the only passenger, but the pilot was killed. Sir Alan Cobham wrote expressing appreciation of the effort made by the...
Formby from Opposite Page
'horsing' the boat, she continued for a time to be launched with the aid of a locally-based regiment. Before being taken out of commission in 9 6John and Henrietta had been launched 61 times and rescued 27 lives. The boat was...
Category: Articles
Longhope Naming
The naming ceremony for the new Longhope, Orkney, life-boat took place on 27th May, beside Longhope pier. The new life-boat is the David and Elizabeth King and E.B.—a 48-foot 6-inch Solent—and has been paid for by legacies left by Miss...
Category: Inaugurations
Six Saved from Fishing Vessel
FOR the rescue of six people from a motor fishing boat on the 21st February, 1968, Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry.
At 12.40 a.m. on that day, the Buckie...
Category: Services
Excellent
Torbay, South Devon - At 5.10 p.m.
on 8th March, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Excellent's propeller had been fouled by a trawl. She was within half a mile of the Western Blackstone rock off the...