LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dianne
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 8.10 p.m.
on 12th October, 1966, the Scarborough lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in a dangerous position off the South bay. The life-boat J. G. Graves of...
Malvoisin
Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 18th March a telephone message was received by the Harwich Coastguard reporting that a vessel, with her sails blown away, was driving east of Woodbridge Haven, and showing signals of distress. The steam Life-...
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DOCTOR TAKEN TO FRENCH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 6th November, 1962, the honorary secretary received a telegram stating that the 37,000 ton tanker Esso Parentis, of Le Havre, had asked for a doctor. At 6.5...
Hemisinus
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 10.45 on the night of the 24th of December, 1957, the honorary secretary received a message that there was an injured man who needed a doctor on board the tanker Hemisinus, of London, 150 miles south of Wolf Rock. A...
Obituary
WE regret to record the death, at the end of last September, of the Rev. R.
W. PEKIIY CIRCUITT, Vicar of Brixham since 1900, and Honorary Secretary of the Brixham and Paignton Branch of the Institution for the past fifteen...
Category: Obituaries
A Gallant Rescue of Bathers
ON the evening of 21st June, 1938, two women bathers at Bettystown, Co.
Meath, Eire, were swept seaward on a rubber mattress by a strong offshore wind. The sea was choppy. Several men went at once to their rescue....
Category: Articles
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.24 on the evening of the 8th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a bather had been cut off by the tide at Leigh-on-Sea and had boarded a boat anchored there. At 10.42 the life-boat,...
Vagrant
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—On the morning of the 4th of July, 1949, the sailing yacht Vagrant, of Belfast, left Helvick for Bantry against a strong westerly wind, but returned to Dun- garvan Harbour about half-past six in the evening, and...
Atlantis
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 8th of April, 1957, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the Air Sea Rescue Unit at Tayport saying the poliee had asked the unit to send a motor launch to a position...
Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis
On the 14th No-vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm laden, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night being very dark. The Lyme...