LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Torbay, South Devon.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1956, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat with five people on board had broken down, and that the people on board were waving their arms. The life-boat...
Cristo
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1957, a message was received from the Penmon coastguard that a motor vessel, which was anchored in a dangerous position near the Perch Rock in the channel between Anglesey and...
A Rowing Dinghy
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1957, the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was finishing a demonstration of a rescue by breeches buoy during an exercise in Whitby harbour when a message was received that a small...
Award of Ministry of Transport Shield
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service in 1957 to the Sandown arid Ventnor life-saving apparatus companies of H.M. Coastguard for the rescue of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Kirby
BOAT WAS OVERDUE Walmer, Kent. During the afternoon of igth November, 1963, the coastguard and local boatmen received reports that a local drift net fishing boat was overdue with a strong offshore gale blowing up.
The boat...
Miss Lucy
ESCORT FOR TWO Torbay, Devon. At about 10 p.m. on ist April, 1964, a shipping agent at Exmouth informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel The Duchess had found a catamaran with four people on board 15 miles south-east of Berry...
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APPRECIATION RECEIVED Aith, Shetlands. At 2.40 p.m. on I4th August, 1965, the local doctor was told by the district nurse on the Island of Foula that a patient was seriously ill. Her removal to hospital was necessary and the assistance of...
The Hopper Sir Joseph Rawlinson
HOPPER AND TUG COLLIDED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.10 a.m. on 28th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a collision had taken place near the South Oaze buoy and that there were people in the water. The lifeboat Greater London II...
A Boat (1)
Margate, Kent - At 9.2 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashes had been reported by the police to be coming from a small boat near the south east Margate buoy and requested that the life-boat stand...
Cygnus
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 10.30 p.m.
on 25th July, 1967, a message was received that a i7-foot cabin cruiser which had been taken from her moorings during theprevious night had been sighted with a youth on board three miles...