LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George Hastings
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 3.30 in the afternoon, on the 18th of April, 1950, the police reported that a trawler which had just put out had run ashore and was blowing her siren. At 3.50, the life-boat Lloyd's left her moorings in a...
Caprice II
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 6.10 on the morning of the llth of Septem- ber, 1950, the Kingston-on-Sea coast- guard reported that a yacht, ashore between the Brighton piers, had asked for the life-boat. Five minutes later the life-boat Rosa...
Cloud
Buckle, Banffshlre.—At 3.10 in the afternoon of the 27th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore half a mile north-west of the Covesea Lighthouse, and at 3.40 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was launched...
Hebe 2
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1961, the police at Benllech informed the honor- ary secretary that a small boat flying a distress signal off Red Wharf bay was drifting out to sea. A fresh south-south- westerly...
Mag
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Aberdeen. At 11.10 on the night of the 4th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen three to four miles east-south-east of Gregness. The life-boat W...
A Rowing Boat (1)
TWO SAVED FROM ROWING BOAT Peel, Isle of Man. At 4.46 p.m. on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the Peel coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two people on board was seen to be in difficulties two and a half miles...
Two Sailing Dinghies
SIX PEOPLE THROWN INTO SEA Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.57 on the morning of Tuesday the 27th of August, 1963, the Bembridge coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized and that another sailing dinghy...
Venus
SAILING FAMILY RESCUED Dover, Kent. At 5.34 p.m. on Sunday the 29th September, 1963, a message was received that a yacht was in difficulties and was trying to make the harbour in a fresh to strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...
Mrs. Amy Lea Warren Pearl
MRS. AMY LEA WARREN PEARL, an honorary life-governor of the Institu- tion, died on ist February, 1964, at the age of 83. She was a member of the Chelsea branch committee from 1936, became vice-chairman in 1951, and subscribed generously to...
Category: Obituaries
Bunts
Early on the morning of the 12th October the motor yacht Bunts, bound from Scapa for London, with a crew of three, broke down about eight miles S.S.E. of Scurdy- ness. She had no sails on board and was helpless. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...