LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 9.22 in the morning of the 6th of January,1952, the Scilly Islands medical officer telephoned that a patient at St. Mary's needed an immediate operation and, owing to fog, the surgeon and his staff could not fly...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that a yacht was in distress off Minster. At 3.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea was very...

Galway Bay. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th February, 1966, the local medical officer of health informed the honorary secretary that he had taken a woman patient from Inishmaan Island to Kilronan in a small fishing boat, but due to weather conditions...

OVERDUE MOTOR BOAT FOUND AT SEA Fowey, Cornwall. At 4.15 on the morning of Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Polruan coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the owner of the motor boat Debbie G that she...

MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.

The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern,...

Harwich lifeboats called to power boat on fire Both of Harwich's lifeboats, the Waveney class John Fison and the Atlantic 21 British Diver II, were called to an incident on the River Orwell on 18 March 1990.A moored power boat had burst...

Ex-coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell, Northumberland, died on the 18th April at the age of seventy-three. He was a member of one of two families, both named Brown, who in that small village compose the Life-boat crew, while the wives,...

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