LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
AP R I L 2 9 T H . - WALMER, KENT. A motor boat which had been expected in before sundown had not returned, but she got in later without needing help. - Rewards, £19 7s..
William John Arthur,
OCTOBER 1997 William John Arthur, former Falmouth mechanic. Mr Arthur's RNLI service spanned over 43 years - 20 years as a crew member on the Cadgwith rowing and sailing lifeboat, 12 years as mechanic at Cadgwith (at the outbreak of WW2)...
Category: Obituaries
James and Eleanor
SOUTHWOLD.—On the morning of the 13th January information was received that a vessel was on the outer shoal about a mile N.E. of the town. The No. 1 Life-boat Alfred Oorry put off at 7.30 and found that the vessel was the brig James and...
Naming Ceremonies In Ireland
FOUR life-boats were named in Ireland in August and September, 1950, at Donaghadee, Clogher Head, Baltimore and Arranmore.
Donaghadee The new Donaghadee life-boat has been built out of a gift from Lady Kelly, of...
Category: Inaugurations
Venus of Preston
The schooner Venus, of Preston, whilst entering the port on the 20th October, late on the tide, during a strong westerly wind, struck on the Horse Bank, on which a good deal of sea was then running. The Life-boat Wakefield was then taken out...
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Injured climber A MAN, APPARENTLY SERIOUSLY INJURED and lying at the foot of the cliff at Jackets Point, three miles north east of Port Isaac ILB station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM Coastguard at 1332 on Wednesday, May...
Obituary
THE committee of management of the Institution deeply regret the loss of two of their colleagues last spring..
Category: Obituaries
Lewis 'Tuner/Tuna' Harrison
Lewis 'Tuner/Tuna' Harrison - Cramer, further to last issue's notice, also former Second Coxswain (twice) and Coxswain.
Category: Obituaries
A Small Solent Seagull Class Sailing Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of June, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small Solent Seagull Class sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Milford Beach. At 8.20 he telephoned again...
The Lynwell Lightvessel
DENTAL CARES Skegness, Lincolnshire. At u a.m.
on 15th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man aboard the Lynwell lightvessel required urgent dental treatment and the use of the life-boat...