LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards
Antilla
DOCKERS TAKEN OFF DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Arklow, Co. Wicklow. On the evening of the 17th January, 1962, the motor vessel Antilla of Groningen, outward bound from Arklow to Rotterdam with a crew often, grounded 150 yards north-east of Arklow...
Life-Boatman Wades 150 Yards Through Surf
At 10.23 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Margate coastguard reported that a small yacht was ashore on Margate sands about three miles north of the harbour. She had a heavy list and seas were breaking over her. The life-boat...
Category: Services
Venture
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 7.5 on the night of the 25th of January, 1951, the police sent a message that a fishing boat was reported to have made flares off the Tolsta Head. At 7.30 the life-boat William and Harriet was launched in...
Rosebud
The fishing- smack Rosebud, of Dublin, when making for the harbour about 11 A.M. on the 7th March, was driven on the south wall close to the bar. It was blowing a moderate gale from S.W., and the vessel commenced to bump heavily and for some...
Anonymous Gift
IN September the Institution received an anonymous gift of £10,000 from a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The gift was made, in the words of the donor, "in admiration of the magnificent work of the Institution" and as...
Category: Donations
The S.S. Yewglen
FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
The Shooner Admiral Hood
On the 18th No- vember, the schooner Admiral Hood ran ashore on Yarmouth beach; a line was thrown over her by the Coast-guard, by means of the rocket apparatus, and the life- boat of the Institution was hauled off to her, when the crew, 5 in...
A Vampire Jet Aircraft
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...