LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Cuttle and Thorpe Grange
TOWED TO MOORINGS At 7.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the nightwatchman reported that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle appeared to be dragging her anchor inside Spurn Point, in the rough seas and near gale force westerly winds. At 7.50 the...
Guatemala
BROADSTAIRS.—In reply to signal guns from the light-ship, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was launched at 8.55 P.M.
on the 30th June. When about half way to the Goodwin Sands, she was taken in tow by the steam-tug...
Philip Weeks
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Category: Advertisement
Tyger and The American Steamer Edward R. Squibb
FEBRUARY 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 3.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a message from the East Goodwin Light-vessel. She asked for the life-boat to be sent as she had on board survivors from a vessel which had been...
Four Distinguished Coxswains. Richard Roberts, of Deal, William Cooper, of Ramsgate, Frederick John Eagles, of Plymouth, John Crocombe, of Lynmouth
Richard Roberts, of Deal, William Cooper, of Ramsgate, Frederick John Eagles, of Plymouth, John Crocombe, of Lynmouth.
THE Institution has lost by death during the last four months four distinguished ex-coxswains of...
Category: Obituaries
Altmark
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 7.15 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was ashore one mile north of Sker Point. At 7.55 the life-boat The William Gammon— Manchester and...
Accident to French Life-Boat
ONT the 4th of September, 1956, the life-boat Jean Charcot, stationed at Molene and belonging to the Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages, overturned when being launched to go to the help of the yacht Mathan. Six of the crew were...
Category: Articles
H.M.T. Monimia
FEBRUARY 27TH. - PETERHEAD , ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. a message was received from the Naval Base,through the coastguard, that H.M.T. Monimia was ashore in South Bay, Peterhead. A S. by E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
The Hopper Sir Joseph Rawlinson
HOPPER AND TUG COLLIDED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.10 a.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a collision had taken place near the South Oaze buoy and that there were people in the water. The lifeboat Greater London II...
A Rubber Dinghy
Appledore, Devon.—Just before noon on the 12th of June, 1950, the Northam Burrows coastguard reported a rubber dinghy drifting to sea with two men aboard. At 12.5 the life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched in a slight sea with an easterly...