LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marietta
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.30 on the morn- ing of the 5th of March, 1957, the life- boat coxswain heard on his wireless that two vessels had been in collision seven miles east-by-north of Dunge- ness. At 9.50 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
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Plymouth, Devon. At 10.23 on the night of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that some swimmers were in difficulties near the Mewstone islet on the eastern side of the entrance to the harbour. The...
Santa Anna
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Lymington police that a small boat, the Santa Anna, had capsized off Hurst Castle. Efforts...
Aquilla
TOWED TO GRIMSBY At 3.41 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties in the moderate seas off the coastguard station.
At 4.34 he...
An Auster Aircraft (2)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
Crew Members Held
crew members held her off adjacent rocks with boathooks, the boy was lowered on board and taken to Torquay Harbour at full speed. First intimation that the boy was in trouble had come from a young man, Nicholas Berry, who had risked his own... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School
When 40 Children from Weston Park Junior Mixed School, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, visited Tenby lifeboat station they left behind a tee shirt, and Jack Thomas, the branch chairman, duly paid this unusual £83.43 cheque into the bank. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Longhope Naming
In connection with the above headed report on page 142 of the July issue it has been pointed out that the new Longhope life-boat was accepted by the honorary secretary's brother, Mr Jimmie Groat, who is branch honorary...
Category: Inaugurations