LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brigadier-General W. S. Swabey, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL W. S. SWABEY, C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., who died in September at the age of 68, had a distinguished career in the Royal Army Service Corps. During the war of 1914 to 1918 he was Deputy Director of Supplies in France, and...
Category: Obituaries
Hawkinge
ANOTHER YACHT IN PERIL Appledore, Devon.—At 8.50 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the yacht Hawk, of Southampton, which was moored in the pool, made distress signals. A strong west-north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
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TWO CHILDREN ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 24th November, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that there were two sick children who needed hospital treatment. One had appendicitis and the other had a dangerous cut on his leg. As no...
A Dinghy (7)
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, when the IRB was on exercise, a capsized dinghy was sighted.
Her crew of two were in the water and appeared to be in difficulties. There was a fresh easterly wind and a...
Coxswain James Bumble
Coxswain James Bumble of Sheringham, who also held the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 5th of June, 1958. The service for which he was awarded his medal was carried out during the last war. The Canadian steamer Eaglescliffe Hall had...
Category: Obituaries
Royal Humane Society Award
POLICE Constable Robert Rutherford, who is a regular member of the Tynemouth life-boat crew, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testimonial on parchment for his part in the rescue of a 73-year-old man in January,...
Category: Awards
Fishing Boats
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 1.55 early on the morning of the 4th of March, 1960, the life-boat Grace Darling was launched at low water to escort nine local fishing boats to harbour in bad weather. There was a...
World Concord (2)
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Fishing Cobles
TWELVE COBLES ESCORTED TO SHORE Filey, Yorkshire. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 22nd January, 1962, it was decided after consultation with the coastguard to launch the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted, as several local...
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At midday on 27th February, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that two patients needed hospital treatment.
There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a choppy sea, and the tide was flooding. As no other...