LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Selsey Station
AFTER forty years' service in the Life- boat, during twenty of which he was Coxswain, Mr. Thos. Sparshott has re- tired with the Institution's pension. On 25th July a meeting was held in the Selsey Life-boat House, at which the...
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Young John
Appledore, Devon. About seven o'clock on the evening of the 21st of June, 1958, a message was received from Ilfracombe radio station that the traw- ler Young John of St. Ives had engine trouble near the Fairway bell buoy in Barnstable...
Kirkley
EIGHT SURVIVORS RESCUED FROM TRAWLER Caister, Norfolk. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 8th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a local resident had sighted red flares north-east of Caister. The motor...
Eidolon
Clovelly, Devon.—At 9.59 on the night of the 31st of August, 1957, the Hart- land Point coastguard reported that the yacht Eidolon, of Plymouth, was firing red flares six miles south-west of Hartland Point. Her steering gear had broken and...
Middlesex Trader
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 4.30 on the morning of the 16th May, 1963, a message was received from the motor vessel Middlesex Trader of London, on passage from Montreal to Gdynia, stating that she was off...
Rosten
Sunderland, Co. Durham—27th February.
The Norwegian steamer Rosten, and a pilot cutter, had run aground, but did not need any help.—Rewards, £11 18s. Sd..
Sea Hawkinge
Appledore, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sea Hawk was aground off Down End and that one of the crew had been taken off by a lifeguard in a rubber boat. The...
Cruiser
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honorary secretary that the tug Cruiser of Glasgow, was aground alongside the S.S. Ballyhalbert half a mile north of Ardrossan. The...
Loss of a Bell
A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...
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River Ythan
AUGUST 11TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 P.M. the naval officer in command asked for the life-boat to go out to a vessel aground on Pilling Sands. She was the trawler River Ythan, of Fleetwood, loaded with fish and...