LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Kieran
Galway Bay.—At 6.0 on the night of the 14th of December, 1951, the Coast Live-saving Service telegraphed that the trawler St. Kieran, of Kil- ronan, with a crew of four, had broken down and was drifting, two and a half miles east of Sand...
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the birthday honours for 1962 included:— K.C.B. Rear Admiral E. G. IRVING, C.B.E., O.B.E., Hydrogra- pher of the Navy, and ex- officio member of the Com- mittee of...
Category: Awards
Robin
LOBSTER BOAT AIDED Stromness, Orkneys. At 4.20 a.m.
on 24th June, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that the lobster boat Robin of Kirkwall on passage to Stromness was overdue. At 4.45 the life-boat Archibald and...
Mr. Harold Cowie, S.S.C.
MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.
Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Teazer
RED ROCKETS SEEN At 9.34 p.m. on 27th November, 1963, the St. Peter Port signal station informed the honorary secretary that red rockets had been sighted four miles south-east of St. Peter Port harbour. There were light airs and a smooth sea...
Lady Sybil
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 4.10 p.m.
a 8th November, 1964, two boys in- >rmed a member of the inshore rescue oat crew that a speedboat was in diffiulty off Hengistbury Head. At 4.15 the ishore rescue boat launched in a...
Coxswain Swarts
While working on the Barry Dock life-boat on I3th January, 1965, Coxswain F. Swarts fell to the concrete floor of the life-boathouse and was severely injured. He died on 22nd January without regaining...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977,...
Category: Services
A Fishing Boat (2)
Aberystwyth D class inflatable lifeboat was launched on the morning of Tuesday January 12 to go out to meet a fishing boat bringing in people from New Quay and taking back medical supplies and yeast. There were breaking seas on the harbour...
Ex-Coxswain J. T. Upperton
The death has occurred of Ex-Coxswain James T. Upperton, of Shoreham, who was 78.
In 1941, as acting coxswain, Mr. Upperton was awarded the silver medal of the Institutions for rescuing 22 people from a minesweeper. Then,...
Category: Obituaries