LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
WE regret to report the death from wounds of SERGEANT CHARLES DIXON, assistant messenger at the house of the Institution. Sergeant Dixon was a Reservist of the Guards and was called up at the outbreak of war. He was twice wounded, the second...
Category: Obituaries
Henry Morton of Sunderland
On the 10th December, at 8 P.M., the brig Henry Morton, of Sunderland, got on shore on the Sizewell Bank, there being a heavy surf on the bank at the time. The Institution's Thorpeness life-boat was launched, and went to the aid of her...
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MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
Northman
Aberdeen.—At 8.7 on the night of the 5th of February, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was thought to be ashore two miles south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. At 8.45 he reported that she was sounding her siren...
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SEVEN CHILDREN ON BOARD Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At i.oo p.m.
on 24th August, 1965, a lo-foot fibreglass dinghy left Ballycotton for Garryvoe Strand with a man and seven children on board. The wind was then south-west force 3...
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Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 30th of Decem- ber, 1959, the life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 2 was launched to take pro- visions to the light-keepers on Chicken Rock lighthouse, who had been cut off for nearly...
Awards for Two Mechanics
MR. HENRY PEGG, motor mechanic of the Dover (Kent) life-boat, and Mr. Wilfred Cook, travelling mechanic of the Institution, were awarded testimonials on parchment by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a man who had fallen into the sea at...
Category: Awards
Motor Life-Boats
IN accordance with our annual custom we give with this month's issue of the Journal a table showing the various motor Life-boats now on the coast, or under construction; and in this connexion we print, by the courtesy of The Times, an...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Birkbeck Birthday Readers might be interested to hear that the lifeboat Edward Birkbeck, shown above on Deganwy beach, is rapidly approaching her 100th birthday and still in regular use.
The hull is an improved Norfolk and...
Category: Correspondence
Golden Charter
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YOUR CHILDREN PROBABLY WON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS, HAVE YOU EVER tried to speak to...
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