LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
—On the 30th of June, 19.51, the Chief Inspector of the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked if the life-boat would take provisions to the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse next day. The Commis-...
Hoppet
ALDBOBOUGH.—Information having been received that a vessel was in distress at the N. end of Sizewell Bank, the George Hounsfidd Life-boat was launched at about 11.40. A.M. on the 14th March, during a strong S.E. gale and a very heavy sea,...
A Small Rowing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—Late on the evening of the 18th July information was received that a small rowing boat, with a man and a woman on board, appeared to be unmanageable and was drifting out to sea with the strong ebb tide. A moderate...
A Cutter
HUNGRY BUT FIT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.10 a.m. on 2Oth February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cutter had been moored off Tregonhawke cliff for three days and that they were going to investigate. Half an hour later...
Marriage Boat
After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...
Category: Branches
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-eighth Anniversary of this valuable Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, on Friday, the 20th April, when its old and valued Chairman, Captain the Hon. FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N., presided with unabated...
Category: Meetings
The Empire Mourns
NEVER probably in the history of our country has public feeling been so moved and sorrow so universally felt and ex- pressed as in the last few days, conse- quent on the almost sudden, and world- wide deplored death of the most beloved of...
Category: Articles
Aguilla
Dover, Kent.—At 12.20 on the after- noon of the 1st of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had sprung a leak and needed help off the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 12.35. The...
Coxswain John Mclean
COXSWAIN JOHN McLEAN, of Peter- head, died on the 9th of January, 1956, at the age of 62. He was the holder of the gold medal, the highest award for gallantry which the Insti- tution can confer. He won this award for services in three days...
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Boat (2)
Newhaven, and Selsey, Sussex. At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized a quarter of a mile off Cuckmere and that her crew of two could be...