LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs. Appennea Green, of Clapham
MRS. APPENNEA GREEN, of Clapham, who died at the beginning of August, at the age of 82, was one of the most enthusiastic and successful honorary secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. She started the Clapham Branch in 1931, with a...
Category: Obituaries
Yacht Never Despair
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight—At 4.10 in the afternoon of the 29th of May, 1949, information was received that a sailing yacht appeared to be in difficulties about four miles north-north-west of Shingles Bank. A strong south/west breeze was...
Phoenix
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1954, the Dalkey Civic Guard reported that a motor boat was in difficulties about four miles south-east of Mugglin Island. At 5.30 the life-boat Dun- leary II put out....
Althea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1954, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a vessel needed help off South West Shingles Buoy. At 8.44 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on...
True Vine
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...
Jill
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 5.10 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that the local motor boat Jill had broken from her moorings in Holland Gap with no one on board, and was in danger of being smashed...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.— At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1953, a woman rang up from Harbour View to say that a rowing boat with a crew of three was on the rocks near Harbour View to the east side of Courtmacsherry...
Totland
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the ketch Totland, with a man, his wife and four children on board, was drifting near the Stones reef. At 5.35 the life-boat Edgar,...
Quest Levant
At 10.34 p.m. on 19th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted three to four miles south south east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 10.55.
It was two...
Priscilla Whittles
The Lizard - Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 5 p.m. on 27th November, 1969, a report was received that a fishing vessel, with two skin-divers on board, was in difficulties in Rill bay. At 5.30 the life-boat The Duke ofCornwall (Civil Service No. 33)...