LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newspaper Award for Best Account of a Life-Boat Service
The Royal National Life-boat Institution's award for what was, in the Institution's judgment, the best factual account of a service by a life-boat to appear in a newspaper in 1965 has been made to Air. T. G. Barker of the Whitby...
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Doris
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.30 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small fishing boat had engine trouble two miles from St. Ives Head. At 9.3 the life-boat Edgar. George, Orlando and Eva Child...
A Pinnace
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...
Cas-Jel
Margate, Kent.—At 12.26 on the after- noon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat, with a crew of three, had broken down about two miles off Foreness. At 12.35 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No...
None (1)
Dungeness, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three skin divers were missing in the Varne bank area about eight miles east of Dungeness.
The life-boat Mabel E....
An Aeroplane (107)
AUGUST 2 6TH. - MARGATE, KENT Intense machine-gun fire had been heard, an aeroplane on fire was seen falling into the sea, and an airman, and then three more airmen, were seen coming down by parachute, but they were picked up by other boats....
Nancy
Drifting trawler THE RAMSGATE TRAWLER Nancy reported to Ramsgate Harbour Radio on the evening of Monday January 30, 1984, that warps and nets had fouled her propeller. Her position was one and ahalf miles east south east of North Foreland...
Prindsesse Louise
ARDROSSAN.—On the morning of the 23rd February the barque Prindsesse Louise, of Farsund, coal laden from Ardrossan for Demerara, was observed ashore at Chapelton, about three miles north of Ardrossan. The Ardrossan Harbour Company's...
Nimble-Iki
TRIMARAN OVERDUE Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 3 p.m.
on 10th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trimaran named Nimble-Iki was overdue.
There was a thick fog with a smooth sea...
Aldershot
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of the 25th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honor- ary secretary that the trawler Aldershot had an injured man aboard, who needed medical assistance, and that she was expected to...