LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Moray Lass
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 21st of February, 1957, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen near the shore in Ayr Bay. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a...
British Angler
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht had cap- sized west of the pier. At 3.35 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...
Mr C E Link
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
Category: Obituaries
Centenary Thanksgiving Service In London
THE Centenary Celebrations which began in London with the Centenary Meeting at the Mansion House on 4th March, 1924, concluded on 14th December with a solemn Thanksgiving Service at the Central Hall, Westminster, which was kindly lent to the...
Category: Articles
Caroline
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The three-masted schooner Caroline, of Padstow, bound from Hayle for Cardiff with sand, while being towed out of the harbour, in a j moderate W.N.W. breeze and a very heavy ground sea, on the 23rd January, stranded on the...
Eugenie Auguste
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Euncorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
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SICK MAN TAKEN FROM ISLAND Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.50 on the morning of the 18th March, 1963, the medical officer for the Isle of Colonsay informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient suffering from a gastric perforation...
A Sailing Dinghy (5)
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
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Ten stranded HARTLAND COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Ilfracombe lifeboat station at 2115 on Monday March 28, 1983, that an adventure holiday party, three adult instructors and seven children, had not returned following a day...
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 4.38 on the afternoon of the 21st May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over a cliff. Ten minutes later, when the life- boat Jeanie put to sea, with the boarding boat in...