LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Third Bronze Medal for Irish Coxswain
AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...
Category: Services
None (2)
Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
Mr. Ernest Armstrong
BY the death of Mr. Ernest Armstrong, of Eastbourne, on the 3rd of June, 1952, at the age of 78, the Life-boat Service has lost one of its most devoted and energetic friends, and the committee of management a col- league whose help and...
Category: Obituaries
Candy
Early warning saves three The eagle eyes and quick thinking of RNLI tractor driver Philip Eaglen helped to ensure that a father and his two sons were rescued before it was too late.
At 3.30pm on 2 September 2000, Philip was...
Fishing Cobles (2)
Several of the fishing cobles were overtaken by a heavy northerly wind and sea on the 18th July and were unable to make harbour. As the weather continued very bad the whole of the next day it was considered advisable to send the Life-boat to...
H.M.S. Witherington
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.30 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
A Boat
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
Arthur Wyatt
YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—The Life-boat John Bnrch was launched in the afternoon of the 9th March to the assistance of the schooner Arthur Wyatt, of Beaumaris,Beaumaris, which was seen to run aground on the Scroby Sand while bound from Hull to...
No. 7
Appledore, Devon. — On the 22nd September two men and a woman were cruising off Instow in the sailing yacht No. 7, belonging to Instow Sailing Club.
During the afternoon the wind freshened, until a moderate W.N.W. gale was...
Dutch Awards to Torbay Crew
THE Queen of the Netherlands awarded the silver medal of humane assistance to ex-Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay for the rescue of a man from a Dutch lighter on the 7th of December, 1959. The other seven members of the crew were each awarded...
Category: Awards