LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Katherina Kolkmann (1)
TEN MEN RESCUED Dover and Dungeness, Kent. At 4.58 a.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch ship, Katherina Kolkmann was in collision with the British coaster Gannet five miles south of...
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
Wallaroo
Piel (Barrow), Lancashire.—On the 2nd September the yacht Wallaroo, which was pleasure-cruising with five people on board, was overtaken by bad weather. She got into difficulties and was eventually anchored in a dangerous position about two...
A Small Boat
Drifting, offshore wind THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Macduff lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1346 on Thursday, July 15, that a small boat had suffered engine failure some two miles north west of the lifeboat station and...
Finvoy
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 10.43 on the night of the 25th of February, 1957, a message was received from the Kirk- wall coastguard that the motor vessel Finvoy, of Belfast, was in danger of being driven ashore east of Horse of Copinsay. At 11.20...
A Wireless Appeal
On March 4th., the I2ist. birthday of the. Life-boat Service, Lord Winster, a member of the Committee of Management, made an appeal for it on the air.
This appeal was "The Week's Good Cause" in the home...
Category: Articles
Foxglove
On the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the Whitby No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepzvorth rescued four men from the local fishing-boat Foxglove. One of the four had been swept overboard by a heavy sea, and to rescue the others the coxswain...
Eleanor
FISHING-BOAT REFLOATED Barrow, Lancashire.—At about 2.45 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1947, the Walney Island coastguard reported flares to the south of Hilpsford Point, and at 3.10 the motor life-boat N.T. was launched. The...
A Motor Barge
At 1.20 p.m. on I4th April, 1967, a motor barge was reported aground on a sandbank west of Margate pier. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 1.45 in a strong north east breeze and a rough sea. It was three hours...
Thorsheimer
Walmer, Kent. At 2.12 on the morn- ing of the 8th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel appeared to be aground a mile and a half north-west of the East Goodwin lightvessel. The vessel had made no...