LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tatra
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles...
Cleevely
Margate, Kent. — At 3.24 in the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had anchored three hundred yards off Reculver near the Black Rock, but that she had not made any distress signals. A motor boat...
The Naval Tug Warden
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 11.26 on the morning of the 5th of February.
1955, the coastguard telephoned that the Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth, had asked if the life-boat would land three injured men from the naval...
Tranquillity
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—In the early hours of the 30th of .May. 1956, the life-boat station was told that the motor fishing vessel Tranquillity of Fleetwood was overdue from trials of a newly installed engine. At 8.5 the life-boat Edmund and...
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,Aith Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a doctor, after consulting with the Medi- cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- boat would take him to Foula to visit a very sick woman who, he suspected, might...
Coxswain C. A. Johnson
Four coxswains whose outstanding acts of gallantry were recognised by the award of medals died during the past year. Among them was the holder of an exceptional number of medals, COXSWAIN CHARLES AMBROSE (JOE) JOHNSON, who joined the crew of...
Category: Obituaries
Notre-Dame de la Sallete
Dover, Kent. At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 23rd of March, 1958, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Boulogne that the trawler Notre-Dame de la Sallete of Boulogne was on the Sandettie bank with her trawl nets...
Naess Pioneer
Penlee, Cornwall. On the 16th Decem- ber, 1961, the port medical officer in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Naess Pioneer of London, which was 120 miles from the Scilly Isles, was making for Mounts Bay to land her master...
Two Dinghies
TWO DINGHIES TOWED At 7.15 p.m. on ist August, 1964, a member of the life-boat crew told the honorary secretary that three youths who had hired one of his boats were having difficulty in returning and that he had sent out an outboard motor...
Maisie
ON THE ROCKS At 1.15 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare north of Trevor Point. There was a very rough sea with gale force west-south-westerly winds.
The tide had...