LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Agnes and Betsy
At 2.15 P.M on the 17th January the coastguard tele- E honed to the coxswain that the small shing boat Agnes and Betsy had not returned from the fishing grounds. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...
Clacton Queen
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 10th August the paddle steamer Clacton Queen, of Rochester, left Clacton to visit Chatham, where Navy Week was being held. She carried a company of several hundred people. She did not return as expected, and...
Shamrock
— Early on the morning of the 9th March the coast- guard reported that a barge was drag- ging her anchors and making distress signals west of Castletown pier, Port- land harbour. A strong east breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The weather...
Coxswain H. J. Gawn
Coxswain Harry James Gawn, of Bembridge, who died on the 17th June, 1962, had served as coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat for 22$ years.
During this period Bembridge life-boat were launched on service 76 times and rescued...
Category: Obituaries
A Yacht and a Dinghy
YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a...
Tumbler
SECOND COXSWAIN PUT ABOARD YACHT Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 14th April, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the harbour bar. There was a moderate to fresh south-westerly...
White Heather
YACHT TOWED IN AFTER CREW SCRAMBLE ASHORE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.3 on the morning of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 34-foot auxiliary yacht White Heather, which had anchored off Clacton beach,...
Cristo
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY HOLED COASTER New Brighton, Cheshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the coaster Cristo of Liverpool was aground near C.I5 buoy but was in no...
A Dinghy
CLINGING TO DINGHY At 12.40 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the Wallasey police told the honorary secretary that two men had been seen clinging to a capsized dinghy a mile north of the Leasowe lighthouse. At 12.50 the life-boat White Star, on...
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TAKEN TO DOCKS Galway Bay. Shortly before 9 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, the honorary secretary was told that a man in Kilronan had been seriously injured in a fall and required immediate hospital treatment.
Owing to the...