LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor lifeboat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M.
on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock lighthouse was making flag and rocket signals, but, owing to the misty weather, the flags could not be read. A...
Anzac
Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.10 on the night of the llth of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flashing S.O.S. signals.
Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
New Year Honours
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the New Year Honours for 1957 was:— C.B.E.
Alderman T. J. Patterson, chairman of the Carrickfergus branch.
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Category: Awards
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey
Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey, who was District Organising Secretary for the Midlands from 1952 to 1957, died on the 29th of March, 1958. Lieut.- Colonel Livesey was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and...
Category: Obituaries
Tonsidor
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.34 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1958, the east pier watchman reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on Brake Sands near No. 3 buoy and needed help. At 6.42 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a...
The S.S. Ardfern
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 30th of July, 1949, the life-boat Lloyd's was on passage from Sandbank, Argyllshire, to her station, after survey.
At 1.50 in the afternoon she saw signals of distress about...
Myrtle
Howth, Co. Dublin,—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1949, the life-boat R'.P.L. was launched for exercise in a rough sea, with a fresh south-westerly wind blowing, and shortly after noticed a fishing boat one mile east of...
Fishing Boats (2)
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that local fishing boats were returning to the har- bour in a rough sea and a strong north- north-west wind, and that conditions at the...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 10.20 on the morning of the llth of September, 1953, the doctor on Eigg asked if the life-boat would take him to Canna to attend an urgent medical case, as no other boat was available. At 10.45 the life-boat Sir...
The S.S. Bramham (1)
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The Steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 had just returned from an exercise on the 18th July when the s.s. Bramham, referred to above, was reported to have stranded on the Cross Sand. She immediately put to sea again, and...