LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jouet des Vagues
St. Helier, Jersey - At 5.36 p.m. on ipth October, 1966, Jersey radio reported that the French trawler Jouet des Vagues, of St. Malo, required assistance as she was in difficulties in heavy seas, about nine miles west of La Corbiere...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of this ; truly national and useful Society was held j at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon ,' Street, on the 4th of June. In the un- ; avoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE ', OF MARLBOROUGH,...
Category: Meetings
DOCTOR's GALLANTRY RECOGNISED
DR. E. J. GORDON WALLACE, who is chairman of the Weymouth life-boat station branch, and also its honorary medical adviser, has been accorded the R.N.L.I.'s thanks on vellum for gallantry when helping to take a sick woman off a Soviet...
Category: Articles
Comedies of a Cow—And a Burning Chimney
THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
Category: Articles
Percy
On the 28th November, during a strong N.W. wind and a very heavy sea, a brig was seen riding in broken water near the Goodwin Light vessel, with a flag flying at her main gaff. The Bradford Life-boat was manned, and left the harbour at 8 A.M...
Winmarleigh
DOCTOR TAKEN OUT TO TRAWLER Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.18 on the night of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had been taken ill on board the trawler Winmarleigh of Fleetwood and needed medical...
Mr. Barrie Bennett's, M.B.E.
MR. BARRIE BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Penlee Station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List. He became honorary secretary in 1913, was awarded the Institution's binoculars in...
Category: Awards
Mr. John Foster of Whitby
THERE are few in the history of the Institution who have a longer record of service than Mr. John W. Foster, of Whitby, who retired at the end of last September. He had then been secretary of the Whitby life-boat station for 44 years. He was...
Category: Articles
Massabielle
FRENCH TRAWLER REFLOATED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.50 on the morning of the 14th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler was ashore six miles south of Tarbert harbour.
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Aith, Shetland.—During the afternoon of the 24th September the island of Papa Stour informed Sandness post office, on the mainland, that doctor was wanted for a sick man on the island. The weather was too bad at that time to allow an...