LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INJURED MAN Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 3.45 p.m. on 18th March, 1965, the Bantry harbour master informed the honorary secretary that there was a seriously injured man on board the Spanish trawler Luna y Sol twenty miles south of Baltimore. The...

TWO TAKEN OFF LEAKING FISHING VESSEL Fleetwood, Lancashire. On the afternoon of the 24th September, 1962, several people reported that a vessel was aground between the nos. 6 and 4 buoys in the Wyre Channel, and a radio message to the same...

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Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...

Kirkcudbright.—On the evening of the 3rd of August, 1957, the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was returning from a visit to Port William for pub- licity when a message was received at 8.10 from Portpatrick radio that red flares had been...

OBITUARIES IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: February, 1986 Denis Hapgood, who was chairman of Wadebridge branch from 1977 to 1985.

Sidney Banister, honorary treasurer of Wadebridge branch since...

On the 26th November, 1939, the Lytham-St. Annes life-boat got alongside the Mersey pilot boat Charles Livingstone, but the men on board, who were rescued later by the Blackpool life-boat, refused to leave her.

COXSWAIN...

IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...