LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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...
Mary Robinson
TO NORTH SHIELDS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.20 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the crew of the coble XmasRose informed the honorary secretary that the coble Mary Robinson was still at sea. It was almost low water; the sea was rough due to a...
Sheba III
NO STEERING Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.35 a.m. on yth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sheba HI was secured to the Helwick lightvessel and was unable to steer because of rudder trouble. The tide...
Yvonne Risager
BROKEN FUEL PIPE Dunbar, East Lothian. At 4.40 p.m.
on yth October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down about four miles east-south-east of Barnsness...
The S.S. Allurity
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—About 4.15 in the morning on the 8th of November, 1950, the S.S. Allurity, of London, a tanker of 813 tons, wirelessed that she had a fire in her engine-room. Shortly after 7.0 the Foreland coastguard reported that...