LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to: Mr. CHARLES E. TODD, on his retirement after ten years as honorary secretary of the Tynemouth...
Category: Awards
Leander
On the evening of the 16th March information was received that the motor fishing boat Leander, with two men on board, was overdue. A squally W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls. Some time later it was re- ported that...
A Motor Launch
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the coxswain, who knew that the motor launch which attends on the residents of Steep Holm Island was away at the island, kept a look out for her, as a fresh S.S.E. breeze...
Armina
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 11.5 on the night of the 1st of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen seven miles to the south- ward, and at 11.50 the life-boatMichael Stephens put out in a calm sea and light breeze....
A Meteor Aircraft (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1954, the Margate coastguard told the Margate life-boat station that No. 19 Group R.A.F. at Plymouth had reported that a Meteor aircraft had crashed...
Skimmer I
Newcastle, Co. Down.—About 6.20 in the evening, on the 29th of August, 1950, the Kilkeel coastguard tele- phoned that a motor launch had broken down and was anchored two miles south-east of Kilkeel. Her crew were waving a flag. She was in no...
Runa
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...
A Canoe
The Mumbles, Glamorgan. At 12.5 early on the morning of the 21st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a canoe had capsized in Langland Bay. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze, and the weather was fine. At...
The Dowsing Lightvessel
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.33 on the afternoon of the 7th January, 1963, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had been...
The S.S. Speke
. JANUARY 1 0TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.45 P.M. the lights were seen of a ship ashore on Gansey Point, about half a mile N.E. of Port St. Mary breakwater, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was launched at 8.30 P.M. A...