LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swimming Gala In Salford
THE City of Salford branch organized a Swimming Gala in celebration of the King's Silver Jubilee. The baths where it was held were lent and decorated with flowers by the Corporation. Mr.
L. B. Todd, secretary of the...
Category: Branches
Shahjehan
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.27 on the morning of the 20th of June, 1955,the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Galloper light- vessel had reported that a motor yacht two miles north-east of the light- vessel had fired red...
Channel Tripper
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 20th of November, 1955, anxiety was felt for the safety of an angling party, which had put off earlier in the day, and at 5.16 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched. The sea was slight, there was a light...
Gypsy
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—On the 23rd November, 1938, the steamer Catherine Hawksfield, on passage from the Tyne to Dover, picked up the motor boat Gypsy, sixteen to twenty miles S.E.
of Hartlepool. The Gypsy was towing the...
A Sea Hornet Aircraft
St. David's, and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
At. 10.15 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1953, the St. David's coastguard asked if the St. David's life- boat would search for the pilot of a Sea Hornet aircraft...
Milborne
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 4.45 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that awireless distress message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Milborne, of Poole, stating that she had gone ashore eight miles...
Coxswain John Strachan of Peterhead
JOHN R. STRACHAN, a former coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, died on the 1st of July at the age of 82.
Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the Institution for the rescue of the crew of nine of the trawler...
Category: Obituaries
Anna Liffey, of Dublin
Yacht given tow WHEN a man on the shore reported seeing a yacht driven aground, the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, lifeboat put out on May 4.
She was the lifeboat Dunleary II, on temporary duty at the station, and she slipped...
Pigganin
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a...
Esso Guildford
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DRIFTING TANKER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 9.45 a.m.
on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that an injured man on board the tanker Esso Guildford, 22 miles east of the...