LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pollux
At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler Pollux had a mine on board. She was making for the Tyne and a R.N. bomb and mine disposal party were on their way from Rosyth.
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 2yth August, 1966, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown rescued six people who had been trapped by the tide. An account of this service will appear in the March, 1967, number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Limelight, of Greenock
At 5.17 a.m. on loth October, 1966, three red flares were sighted off Port Ellen light. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley left her moorings at 5.37 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was four...
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Life-boat 70-001, Bristol Channel - At 8.40 p.m. on I2th October, 1966, the staff-coxswain of the 70-foot life-boat was told that there was a sick man on the South Lundy lighthouse and asked if he could take a doctor to Lundy island. It was...
Death of Life-Boatman
WHEN an explosion wrecked their fishing boat off the South Devon coast on I5th June, 1967, one of the two men lost was Mr. Francois L. Janssens, of Brixham, who was a regular crew member of the Torbay life-boat. His father, Mr. Albert...
Category: Obituaries
Stan Woolaway
Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...
A Hunter Aircraft (3)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Yacht Carraig
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.30 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, a message was received from the Coast Life-saving Service that the steam yacht Carraig was shipping heavy seas eight miles east of Clogher Head and needed help. At 10.57...