LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of March, 1961, the honorary sec- retary noticed three local fishing vessels sheltering in the lee of the Fame...
Sea Breezes and Starfish II
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 1.30 p.m. on 30th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that a skiff with three people on board was in dangerous water off Mexico Beach. At 1.31 inshore rescue boat no. 5 launched in a moderate northwesterly...
Susitna
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.9 p.m. on 9th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an injured man aboard the motor fishing vessel Susitna needed medical assistance urgently. At 9.30 the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth,...
Swordfish
Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 5.35 p.m. on ist October, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran was almost on the rocks at Deadman's Cove. The life-boat White Star, on temporary duty at the station, was launched...
Wheal Geavor
Sinking trawler DUNMORE EAST PILOT STATION informed the deputy launching authority of Dunmore East lifeboat station at 1035 on Monday October 12, 1981, that the trawler Wheal Geavor, with a crew of three, was disabled and making water; she...
Pioneer
APRIL 1ST. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The motor-boat Pioneer left at 1.30 in the afternoon for Coquet Island to exchange lighthouse keepers. There was a dense fog. The Pioneer had not returned at five o’clock and was then two...
John John
John John, second coxswain of Tenby lifeboat from 1982. He joined the crew of the Watson lifeboat in 1963 and was also a member of the station's D class lifeboat crew from 1973. In 1983 he was awarded a long service badge..
Category: Obituaries
A Vessel (15)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned YORK The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Marietta
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.30 on the morn- ing of the 5th of March, 1957, the life- boat coxswain heard on his wireless that two vessels had been in collision seven miles east-by-north of Dunge- ness. At 9.50 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Princess Alice, of Ipswich
On the 28th January, at daylight, a boat, with 5 men in it, was seen from Southwold, drifting towards the shore.
There was a verj high surf on the coast, which would have made it impossible for her to land, or for any...