LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Coxswain Murdo Sinclair
Ex-coxswain Murdo Sinclair died on igth July, 1965, at the age of 81. He had been coxswain of the Barra Island life-boat for over fifteen years and was awarded the silver medal of the Institution in 1943 for taking the life-boat forty miles...
Category: Obituaries
Marie Grillon
LIFE-BOAT FINDS BODY THE recovery of charred wreckage and other evidence by the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon—a 46-foot 9-inch Watson type —pointed to an explosion aboard the French yacht Marie Grillon reported missing on...
Eliza, and James and Sarah
"WHITBY.—On the 8th May two fishing vessels, the Eliza and the James and Sarah, belonging to Scarborough, were seen to be making for Whitby Harbour, during a strong S.E. breeze. The sea being very heavy, it was impossible for them to...
Eva
At 1.45 P.M. on the 13th February signals of distress were observed from the cutter Eva, of Liverpool, at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay: she was dragging her anchors and the three men on board feared she might run ashore. It...
Moon Dragon
Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...
An Inflatable Dinghy
Capsized inflatable THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1522 on Saturday April 25, 1981, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized in Porthdinllaen Bay, throwing two people into the water....
Norok
Cromer, Norfolk.—About six o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1953, the coastguard passed on to the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg a message he had received from Sheringham that a small motor vessel close to the...
Vanguard
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The steam trawler Vanguard, of Sunderland, was seen near the outer Fame Island making signals of distress, during squally weather, at about 2 P.M. on the 1st April. As the sea was too heavy for ordinary boats to put off,...
Bradford Editions
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Category: Advertisement
Juniper
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 13th of March, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that the salvage vessel Juniper, of London, was driving towards the cliffs at Minster, Isle of Sheppey. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater...