LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Militence
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1958, the coastguard told the hon- orary secretary that a doctor was needed to examine a badly injured member of the crew of the coaster Militence of Rochester, whose...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that it would be very danger- ous for local boats to cross the bar at the entrance to the harbour because of the heavy sea...
Lowestoft Coxswain's Gallantry.
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon, of Lowestoft, who already holds the silver and bronze medals, has been awarded the bronze medal for the second time.
He took the life-boat out at night to a naval vessel, was flung against the...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Thomas Kyle, of Holy Island
Coxswain Thomas Kyle, proprietor of the Castle Hotel, Holy Island, who died in October, 1937, at the age of sixty-four, had served as coxswain of the Holy Island life-boats for two years, and as second coxswain for over twenty years. During...
Category: Obituaries
Lanho
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 5th of November, 1948, red flares were seen to the south-south-east, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 6.40 in a strong, squally...
Lady Anne, of West Hartlepool
Another service was also performed by this life-boat on the 12th September, in going off to the assistance of a sloop which was observed with a signal of distress flying a short distance below the jetty, while a heavy gale from W.N.W. was...
Minnie
FISHING BOAT FOUNDERED At 8 a.m. on 25th October, 1965, the coxswain's wife informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Minnie was in difficulties in Clovelly harbour, having shipped seas while hauling in her nets.
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Maid of Kent
RYE.—The night patrol reported that signals of distress were being made by a vessel off the west end of Broom Hill on the 24th November. The crew of the Mary Stanford Life-boat were immediately assembled, and the Boat put off at 8...
Breadwinner (1)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...
Kalavala and Camelot
Family rescued Nearly three months later, on the evening of Friday April 27, 1984, the station's own 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Ralph and Joy Swann, back on station, was called out to the aid of a 30ft motor cruiser, Kalavala. She had...