LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(11)—Second Coxswain Dennis Finch. Became Second Coxswain When Frank Bloom Took Over As Coxswain In 1964. Worked As a Boat Builder at Halls Boat Yard, Walton, Until Recently. Now Tak
(11)—Second coxswain Dennis Finch.
Became second coxswain when Frank Bloom took over as coxswain in 1964.
Worked as a boat builder at Halls Boat Yard, Walton, until recently. Now takes out fishing parties.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles (3)
Three of the cobles belonging to Runswick were fishing on the 15th February, when the northerly wind suddenly freshened and brought up a heavy sea. As it was realised that they could not reach the shore without danger to the men, the...
Four Vellums Awarded to Crew Members
AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
Category: Services
A Boat from a Pilot Vessel
BOYS RESCUED Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.7 a.m. on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boat from a pilot vessel with two boys on board had broken down, was unlit and drifting up river. At 2.35 the...
George Brown and Wave
On the 15th of April, at 10 A.M., during a heavy gale at S., the schooner George Brown, of Montrose, bound from Newcastle to that port, was wrecked on the Annat Bank. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, pushed out of the river through a heavy...
A Boston Aeroplane's Dinghy
JUNE 27TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 12.7.P.M. the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Chapel, and the motor lifeboat Anne Allen was launched at 12.37 P.M.
A light N.E...
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INJURED BOY BROUGHT BY SKIFF TO LIFE-BOAT Wicklow. At 6.58 on the evening of the 10th June, 1962, a member of the Garda told the coxswain that a boy had fallen fifty feet down a cliff three miles south of Wicklow. The life-boat /. W. Archer...
Atlantic 21 Mobile Dock By Ray Kipling
A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR LAUNCHING AND RECOVERY ON EXPOSED BEACHES by Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer, RNLI A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR...
Category: Articles
A Tug and Lighter
The No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was called out shortly before 1 P.M. on the 18th December to the assistance of a tug and lighter, which were flying signals of distress.
Both vessels were in trouble, and a moderate N.N.E....
Pacific (1)
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...