LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stellar
FRENCH YACHT FOUND BY EQUIPMENT Swanage, Dorset. At 8.5 on the morning of the 4th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the French yacht Stellar's engine had broken down twenty miles off Poole and the yacht...
Mary J. Masson
The steam drifter Mary J. Masson, of Fraserburgh, stranded in thick weather on the Bondicar Rocks while homeward bound from Yarmouth, where she had been for the herring fishing, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
JULY 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.15 P.M. the Ramsgate naval base asked the life-boat crew to stand by from 3 P.M.
This they did. An hour later they were asked to go out to a rubber dinghy reported to be off Birchington with...
Benari
Margate, Kent. At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 24th July, 1961, the coast- guard told the coxswain that a yacht had grounded on the Hook sands and that her crew of four were trying to refloat her. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Professor Edgar A. Pask
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
Category: Awards
Don
LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots,...
A Doctor's Advice By Wireless
MR. MOYLE, the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, has sent a very interesting story of help given in an unexpected way by the life-boat's radio-telephony set.
On Sunday, 13th...
Category: Articles
Parliamentary Questions
MR. HECTOR HUGHES, M.P. for Aberdeen North, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what provision is made by his Department for the protection and salvage of shipping- and seamen in danger at sea round the coasts of Scotland; who...
Category: Articles
William Harvey
Tractor service THE HONORARY SECRETARY of St Ives lifeboat station was informed at 1025 on Monday November 19, 1979, that the fishing boat William Harvey had a man on board with a badly injured finger. At first it was thought that the...
Channel Rover
Walmer, Kent. At 10.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Channel Rover of Dover was drifting towards Deal with her engines out of order. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...