LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (3)
DINGHY IN DANGER At 3.30 p.m. on i8th August, 1965, as soon as the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin reached the pier from the previous service, a visitor reported to the motor mechanic that a dinghy was in difficulties in Loch Nevis. The...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
On the morning of the 1st December rockets were fired from the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel. The Life-boat put off, and on reaching the light-ship found that one of her crew had fallen from the shrouds attached to the shaft on which the...
The St. Govans Light-vessel
FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.
Govans Light-vessel as...
English Rose III
Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse...
Ben Strome
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel seaward of Buchan Ness lighthouse was showing distress signals. The life-boat coxswain was ill, and the motor life-boat Duke of Connaught was launched at 8.40...
Ocean Star
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.28 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1958, the coxswain intercepted a mes- sage from the trawler Ocean Star of Lerwick that she was in broken water near the rocks not far from Peterhead harbour and needed...
Elaine
YACHT FOUND AFTER NIGHT SEARCH Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the morning of the 28th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about four miles south-west of the Ventnor look-out....
Basil Hutchinson
Basil Hutchinson Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January.
Category: Obituaries
Mary, Rose, Elizabeth, Victoria, Charles and Jane Anwyl, etc
On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 15th November, while the wind was blowing freshfrom the S.S.E., fifteen vessels came to anchor in the bay, being unable to get round St. David's Head. Some were in the most exposed and dangerous part...