LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
lasgair
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.55 on the night of the llth of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht had broken down and was drift- ing towards the Quern Sands. She had refused a tow from a local motor boat, but a watch was kept...
Jepa II
Hoylake, Cheshire - On the morning of 31st October, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that a motor cruiser was stranded off Spencer Spit. The West Kirby IRB was towed to Hoylake by road and launched at 11.25. There was a strong north...
Gerlinde
LAUNCHED IN MIST At i p.m. on 2yth May, 1964, the coastguard told the mechanic that a report had been received that a large vessel had gone aground west of the harbour entrance.
Visibility was very bad because of mist, it...
Two Sailing Dinghies
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, at the time of the Penarth regatta, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans put out in a rough sea, with a fresh south-easterly breeze blowing and rain, to help...
Peggy, If, and Billy Boy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 4th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boats Peggy, If, and Billy Boy, carrying seven men altogether, were making heavy weather three miles south of...
Girl Ann
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1955, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that an ex-coastguardsman at Feorlin had reported that two ex- hausted men from the fishing boat Girl Ann, of Fraserburgh,...
Life-Boat Medal for Netley Hospital
THE Institution has presented to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hants, a silver medal which it awarded forty-one years ago to Private James Carroll, of the Royal Irish Regiment.
In May, 1893, Private Carroll and three...
Category: Medals
Minette
Margate, Kent. At 6.53 on the evening of the llth of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio-telephone message received from the tanker Helix that a sailing yacht was in difficulties one mile east of Tongue...
Rescue from a Norwegian Ship
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
Category: Services
Ailsea
Douglas, Isle of Man. At 9.25 on the evening of the 20th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ailsea was off Douglas Head in difficulties.
A moderate south-east wind was...