LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Livingstone
LYDD, DUNGENESS. — The Life-boat David Hulett was launched on the 11th March, in reply to signals of distress, and proceeded to the ship Livingstone, of Yarmouth, N.S., which had stranded near No. 2 Battery, East Bay, Dungeness, during a...
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SICK MAN FROM LIGHTHOUSE LANDED Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 15th June, 1963, the Commissioners of Irish Lights telephoned the honorary secretary to say that a keeper on Skelligs Rock fighthouse was very ill and to...
Fishing Boats (1)
While the fishing-boats were at sea on the 20th March the south-easterly wind increased rapidly, bringing up with it a very heavy sea. As it was realized that it would be quite unsafe for the boats to attempt to get into Gourdon Harbour,...
Books
Lifeboat! by Edward Wake-Walker, Heather Deane and Georgette Purches, published by Ian Allen at £5.95 ISBN 0-7110-1835-9 As the authors of this volume are the RNLI's public relations officer, his deputy and a recently retired...
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Dover, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 21st August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that six boys were cut off by the tide at East Cliff. The life-boat Faithful Forester, with a dinghy in tow, slipped her moorings at 6.47. It was...
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Tragedy as five are swept overboard from charter ya cht A short but difficult search for survivors from a yacht which had been knocked down in the entrance to Tynemouth harbour has earned three of Tynemouth lifeboat's crew letters of...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN B. MCLEAN, on his retirement, after serving for 16J years as coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, gratuity and a retirement allow- ance.
To BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, on his...
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Galaxy
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.13 a.m. on 23rd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an urgent appeal had been intercepted from the master of the motor vessel Galaxy (the wireless transmitting station "Radio...
Thomas Deas
JANUARY 21ST. - PORTASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. At about 10.10 P.M. the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay. The night was dark, with an easterly gale and a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charlotte...