LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary, of Wicklow
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WICKLOW. At five in the morning seven local boats went out fishing three miles north of Wicklow. The weather was moderate, but by six o’clock it had worsened. Six of the boats returned, and anxiety was felt for the safety...
A Small Sailing Dinghy
JULY 21ST. - FOWEY, CORNWALL. At 4.7 in the afternoon the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a small sailing dinghy, with two on board, had capsized near Punchy Cross, at the east side of the entrance to Fowey harbour. A fresh...
Death of Two Honorary Workers. Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and Ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee
Mr. C. A. Myers, of Lytham, and ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee.
THE Institution has lost two old and valued friends by the death of Mr.
Charles Arthur Myers, of Lytham, Lancashire, and ex-Lord...
Category: Obituaries
Increased Retaining Fees for Coxswains and Others
IN the August issue of The Life-Boat it was announced that the Committee of Management had decided, as from April, 1920, to give a further increase of 25 per cent, in the rewards paid to Coxswains and crews for going afloat to save life....
Category: Articles
Tania
Sheringham, Norfolk-At 9.40 a.m.
on 25th May, 1968, a local fisherman told the coxswain that the fishing boat Tania appeared to be in difficulties off Sheringham. The lifeboat Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was launched at...
Coxswain Greig, of Stromness
Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at the age of eighty-three. At the age of ten he went to Edinburgh, and became assistant to his uncle, who was a book- seller. After two years of bookselling he went to...
Category: Obituaries
Third Medal Service on Same Day
THE third of the services carried out on the 27th of October, 1959, for which medals for gallantry were awarded took place near Fraserburgh harbour. In the temporary absence of Captain R. T.
Duthie the assistant harbour...
Category: Services
Harriette
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the 8th August the Life - boat Pendoclc Neale rescued the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Earriette, of Barnstaple, bound from Swansea for Hayle with coal.
The vessel had gone ashore on the...
Wear
WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the...
Albert William
ST. ANNE'S.—Signals having been shown, and a three-masted vessel having been observed on the Horse Bank, during a strong gale of wind from the N.W. and a very heavy sea, the Nora, Royds Lifeboat was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 26th...