LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Cutter No.1
Appledore, Devon. — At 7.7 in the evening of the 30th of November, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that Pilot Cutter No. 1 was in difficulties on Bideford Bar and burning flares, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was...
Glory
St. Helier, Jersey.—At 7.5 in the evening of the 12th of June, 1952, the harbour master received a report from a yachtsman that the fishing boat Glory, of Jersey, with one man on board, had broken down and was drifting seawards. The...
Lively Hope
Workington, Cumberland.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 5th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat had made flares north of Workington pier, and at nine o'clock the life-boat N.T. left her...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At noon on the 29th of October, 1953, the Northern Lighthouse Board reported that a man in the Barrahead light- house was ill and needed immediate medical attention. The weather was too bad for the...
Devotion
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1954, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing boat Devotion, with a crew of three, was in difficulties about three miles north-east of Dunbar and had asked for...
Panachrandos
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 2.56 A.M. on the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported that the Greek steamer Panachrandos. of Andros, which was in Portland Roads, was drifting towards the shore. A west gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The...
Rowena
Ilfracombe, Devon. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, anxiety was felt for the safety of the motor fishing boat Rowena, which had been at sea since 6 A.M. and had not returned with the other boats which had put out with her. A...
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore
A Nimrod jet aircraft of No. 201 Squadron,R.A.F. Strike Command, committed the ashes of the late Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., to the sea in Alum...
Category: Obituaries
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WOMAN TO HOSPITAL At 12.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a woman patient to Rossaveel on the mainland. As no other suitable boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...
Rascal
Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.30 p.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coastguard at Portpatrick told the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser was in difficulties between Sannop and Bute. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken proceeded at...