LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (4)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At~7.30 A.M. on the 25th March, 1939, the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the...
A Small Boat Belonging to H.M.S. Wolfhound
The motor life- boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow was launched at 8.30 P.M. on the 17th January, as the honorary secretary had received a telephone message from the Kildonan coastguards, through the pilot house at Troon, that a small boat...
Pensions for Gold Medallists
AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
Category: Committee
Lil
At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received from the lightkeeper on the East Pier that two yachts were adrift.
A gale was blowing from the west and the sea was rough. The motor life- boat...
Eclipse
FISHING VESSEL'S CREW TAKEN OFF ROCKS Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.52 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Serene had sent a radio message that another...
A Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 2.52 p.m. on 8th May, 1965 the honorary secretary saw a small boat under oars having great difficulty in keeping clear of the rocks off South Shields pier and realized that by trying to keep clear they...
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...
Category: Articles
Wendy
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 8.5 p.m. on gth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had anchored about half a mile off shore, just east of Swansea harbour breakwater, with her engine broken...
None (9)
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...