LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nine People Rescued from Dutch Motor Vessel
A FINE service carried out in an easterly gale resulted in the rescue of all nine people on board a Dutch motor vessel. For this service Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley, of Walton and Frinton, was awarded the bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Services
Advance
On the 22nd August a whole gale of wind blew from the N.E., the sea was very heavy, and^as risk would be incurred by the fishing craft in returning to port, the Life-boat was launched at 4.30 A.M. At 5 o'clock the lugger Advance capsized...
None (4)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1954, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a very sick man to Lochboisdale, where arrangements had been made to fly him to Glasgow. At 10.51 the...
Sunny Seas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.8. on the evening of the 27th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the motor launch Sunny Seas needed help one mile west of Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 8.16. The sea...
Yacht Medea
YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.12 on the evening of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the steam yacht Medea of Colchester, had broken down seven miles west of Portland Bill. There...
Alice and Ella
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.45 p.m. on 4th July, 1965, a message was received that a fishing boat had broken down near Canvey Island, and at 2.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched. There was a moderate...
A Yacht (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 7.29 p.m. on 5th September, 1965, the acting honorary secretary was told by the police that a yacht had capsized in the Conway estuary. At 7.40 the IRB launched in a moderate to fresh north-westerly breeze and...
The Liberian Motor-Vessel Brother George
LIBERIAN VESSEL Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 a.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground opposite Brook coastguard lookout. There was a near gale from the south-east with a rough sea,...
A Boat (3)
SEEN FROM LIGHTHOUSE At 2.57 a.m. on iyth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Altacarry lighthouse keeper had seen a flare half a mile north-north-west of the lighthouse. The wind was increasing from moderate to...
The Barrels Lightvessel (1)
At 10.30 a.m. on 25th May, 1965, the Irish Lights Office informed the honorary secretary that the mother of one of the crew of Barrels lightvessel was dangerously ill, and asked if the life-boat could be launched to bring the man ashore....