LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jane
Ilfracombe, North Devon.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1956, Lloyds agent at Lynmouth reported to the coxswain that the small motor boat Jane, of Ilfracombe, was drifting with the tide off Lynmouth. At 6.50 the life-boat Robert...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that there were six local fishing cobles at sea, and as weather conditions were bad it had become very dangerous for boats...
Universal Dipchick
Islay, Hebrides. At 11.53 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1960, a report was received that the motor vessel Universal Dipchick was calling for the assistance of a life-boat as she had lost her anchor and was drifting towards the Black...
Progress
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.10 on the evening of the 13th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed off Buchan Ness. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her moorings at...
Twilight
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a fishing boat not recognised as a local boat was making for the harbour, and...
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1961 included:— Baronet. THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROLAND THOMAS NUGENT, D.L., J.P., president of the Cloughey...
Category: Awards
Millwood
PERITONITIS PATIENT Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.30 a.m.
on yth January, 1964, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that the trawler Millwood of Aberdeen, which was being towed by the trawler Janwood 12...
Philandees
Whitstable, Kent. At 7.5 p.m. on I7th August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Philandees which had gone aground on the "street" at low water was now drifting out to sea, that her anchor was not...
Phantee
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...
A Speed Boat
TWO SAVED AFTER SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZES Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Saturday the 13th of July, 1963, the Shoreham coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat had capsized half a mile south of the harbour entrance. The...