LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nyanza
ST. AGNES, ISLES OF SCILLY.—Signals having been fired by the Bishop Bock Lighthouse, on the 26th May, the Lifeboat James and Caroline was launched at 12.15 p.m., and found the lugger Nyanza, of Penzance, engaged in the mackerel fishery, at...
Windrush
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.20 in the afternoon, on the 21st of October, 1950, the life-boat coxswain reported that a motor launch had hoisted a distress signal, a mile east of the station and about one and a half miles off...
None (1)
Trapped on cliff FOLLOWING A 999 CALL, HM Coastguard informed Coxswain Griffith Jones of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station at 2253 on Tuesday, August 31, 1976, that a boy was trapped under a rock at Porth-y- Nant. The coxswain informed his...
A Yacht
At 8.22 a.m. on 26th May, 1967, information was received that a small vessel had fired flares about five miles north of Grenham Bay, Birchington. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 8.44 in a slight south...
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...
Viking and Loch Maree
AUG. 9TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
During the evening a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
Derek Lionel Scott
Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...
Category: Obituaries
A Suggestion to Autograph Collectors
AN autograph collector recently asked Lieut.-General Sir A. E. Codrington, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., for his autograph, offering to send a small gift to any charity he named in return for it.
General Codrington, who is a subscriber...
Category: Articles
Casquet
YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 12.49 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men, who had put out in a rowing boat to search for a body reported in the water, were in difficulties off...