LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resuscitation Award
A SOUND knowledge of the mouth to mouth resuscitation technique has earned Motor Mechanic Frederick G. Webber, of the Fowey life-boat, the Royal Humane Society resuscitation certificate.
On 24th July a self drive motor boat...
Category: Awards
Bavaria
Hastings, Sussex - At 9.30 a.m. on 20th September, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that the crew of three aboard a dredger west of St. Leonards wished to be taken off in view of the deteriorating weather conditions....
Garth Inn at Helensburgh
It was more a case of Bells than shackles away at the Garth Inn at Helensburgh when Helmsmen Colin Gardner (I) and Michael Roberts whacked the bottle with their trusty hammers.
Giving them a helping hand is John Beaton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
William and Alice
The schooner William and Alice, of Hull, whilst bound from that port to Grays with a cargo j of coal, stranded on the Cockle Sand on I the 31st August. The crew of the No.
; 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy were assembled and the...
Two Boats
Walmer, Kent - At about noon on iyth July, 1966., two small boats were reported apparently broken down near Goodwin Fork buoy. A joint watch was kept on the craft by the honorary secretary and coastguard. The boats were seen to anchor in a...
Manana
Torbay, Devon - At 9.37 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been sighted about six miles south-southwest of Berry Head and picket boats had been sent out to investigate from the Royal...
M.V. Andoni
Tow by tug IN VERY BAD WEATHER on the evening of Thursday December 9, 1982, the 500 ton coaster MV Andoni suffered engine failure and anchored 2Vz miles south of Shoreham Harbour. She was seen by Coxswain Kenneth Everard of Shoreham Harbour...
Help from America.
People in America have been only less generous than our own people overseas.
One donor, in Texas, has already sent £300 this year, and a lady in California has sent £49 because "she had been thrilled indeed...
Category: Articles
Sparkling Star
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 6.50 on the evening of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Sparkling Star was in a sinking condition and was being towed by the collier Capitol, which had...
An Aeroplane (1)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.43 in the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1948, the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea twenty miles east of Kinnaird, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Ken- nedy was launched...