LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Davento
Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.50 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Southwold. At 1.55 the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh south-westerly breeze and came up with the...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN JAMES TURPIN, who has been coxswain of the Fowey life-boat since 1959, was previously assistant mechanic from 1948, when he joined the crew, until his present appointment. In 1958 he swam 100 yards through broken water from the...
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PATIENT At ii a.m. on 25th April, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a man with a serious haemorrhage had to be brought to the mainland for hospital treatment. The patient was embarked on the life-boat, Mabel Marion...
A Fishing Boat
Dover, Kent. At 2.55 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1959, a fishing boat was seen in difficulties near the wreck buoy south of the eastern en- trance to Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings five minutes...
Fishing Boats (1)
Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth, after completing an engine trial, went to meet four local fishing vessels, which were returning to harbour in a strong east-south-easterly...
Courage, Pilot Me,Brilliant Star, Lead Us, Provider, Success II,Faith Star
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 16th of February, 1955, the weather worsened while fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.5 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was launched to escort them in. The sea was heavy, a moder- ate north-easterly...
Roger Bushell
Torbay, Devon.—At noon on the 6th of October, 1955, a local trawler company reported that their trawler Roger Bushell, of Brixham, which had a crew of eight, had lost her propeller and was drifting ten miles east-north-east of Berry Head. At...
Kathleen Ann
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a longshore boat, Kath- leen Ann, had anchored about fifty v^.rds from the shore opposite the coastguard look-out....
Ann Elizabeth
SHAFT WAS BROKEN Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.35 p.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was flashing a light about one mile north-west of the harbour entrance.
The sea...
A Motor Boat (4)
SAFELY TO MOELFRE At i.20 p.m. on 5th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a small motor boat had sprung a leak and was drifting with the fresh to strong south-westerly breeze in rough seas north-north-east of...