LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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)...
Denrow
Newhaven, Sussex. At 11.10 on the morning of the 19th of April, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Denrow of Shore- ham, which had left Newhaven at 9.52 the morning before to fish to the west- ward of...
Captain Guy D. Fanshawe, R.N.
Captain Guy Fanshawe, a member of the Committee of Management for thirty-seven years, died on the 19th June, 1962, at the age of eighty.
A son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Fanshawe, Captain Fanshawe himself had a...
Category: Obituaries
A Fishing Boat
AID FOR ANGLERS Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.45 p.m. on 2Oth October, 1963, the secretary of the local angling association told the honorary secretary that two of their members aged 78 and 60 were in a motor boat broken down about four miles off...
Varina
TOW FOR MOTOR CRUISER At 12.55 p.m. on igth December, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser off the the Quern was signalling for help. There was a fresh north-north-westerly breeze with a rough sea...