LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Cutter
Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.25 on the nightof the 31st of Decem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a doctor had reported that a woman on Bardsey Island was serious- ly ill. The doctor asked if the life- boat would take...
Coxswain George Taylor
COXSWAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, of Newbiggin, was also the holder of a silver medal awarded for an outstanding service during the last war. This was the rescue in a 32-feet life-boat of the light surf type of eleven men from the Belgian motor vessel...
Category: Obituaries
Carmac
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 6.38 On the evening of the 19th of August, 1957, the civic guard at Bray reported that some sea anglers from Inchinore were in difficulties in a small motor boat five miles east-south-east of Bray Head. They...
Obituary
CAPTAIN THE HON. SIR ARCHIBALD COCHRANE, G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I., D.S.O., died on the 16th of April, 1958, at the age of 73. He first joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1932 and after the second world war rejoined in 1946....
Category: Obituaries
Cornish Open-Air Service
AN open-air service was held in Newlyn Harbour on the 26th of September, 1954. The Penlee life-boat W. & S.
was tied up in the harbour and it was from the deck of the life-boat that the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P., a...
Category: Articles
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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.5 on the after- noon of the 23rd of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a rowing boat, fitted with an outboard motor, three miles south-east of Ramsgate, appeared to be in difficulties. At 4.14 the life-boat...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1955, the doctor on the Isle of Eigg telephoned the life-boat station that he had a patient suffering from appen- dicitis, who must be taken to hospital at once. As...
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Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 3.38 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1956.
the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that two men were marooned on an old wreck close in shore in Inganess Bay. He reported that the coast- guard...
Carraig Airz
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that a local lobster boat Carraig Airz was flying a distress signal off the Aran coast.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...