LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Registan
DOCTOR, AMBULANCE MEN AND PILOT TAKEN OUT St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.39 on the evening of the 20th May, 1963, Niton radio station informed the honorary secretary that a seaman on board the motor vessel Registan of London had been...
Edna
Aith, Shetlands. At 5.40 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a man told the honorary secretary that he had seen a green flare just west of the Island of Vementry. It was one hour to high water when the life-boat John and Francis MacFarlam put out at...
Ynys Lochtyn
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the New Quay coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the Aberystwyth coastguard that the lobster fishing boat Ynys Lochtyn, with a crew of two,...
The Helwick Lightvessel
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a request from the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea for the services of the life-boat to land a very sick member of the...
Indorita
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin. At 10.44 on the morning of the 11th of February, 1960, the honorary secretary at Clogher Head received a mes- sage from Valentia radio that the motor vessel Indorita of Liverpool needed help...
Gleaner
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.45 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1960, the assistant honorary secretary told the honorary secretary that he had heard the motor fishing vessel Gleaner of Fraserburgh wirelessing for help as she was ashore at...
Venus
Plymouth, Devon.—At5.5 on the morn- ing of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Longroom signal station telephoned that the motor vessel Venus, of Bergen, waiting to embark passengers for Madeira, had wirelessed that she was dragging her anchor in...
Normandie
Torbay, Devon.—At eight o'clock oil the morning of the 19th of April, 1955, the French Vice-Consul rang up to say that the fishing boat Normandie, of Dieppe, had gone aground near Man- sands, and that two members of her crew of eight had...
Commander S. W. F. Bennetts, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.
Commander S. W. F. Bennetts, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of life- boats, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Rottingdean on 1st of April, 1961. He joined the Institution as District Inspector (General) in 1949 and in...
Category: Obituaries
A Caisson and a Pontoon
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that he had been asked whether, because conditions were growing worse, the life-boat could land a working party from a...