LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rescue Boat
TOWED RESCUE BOAT At 9.40 p.m. on 23rd November, 1964, the Tay road bridge contractors' safety officer told the coxswain that his rescue boat had broken adrift in the strong south-westerly breeze and was drifting downstream with the tide...
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At 3.40 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a patient required urgent hospital treatment.
The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman with the patient and a nurse on board proceeded at 4.15. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached...
Corsair
COUBTOWN, Co. WEXFORD.—The Alfred and Ernest Life-boat put off at noon on the 9th August, signals of distress having been shown from the schooner Corsair, of Arklow. That vessel had for several months past been stranded on the beach about a...
Purbeck
Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1952, an ex-life-boat coxswain tele- phoned that a vessel had gone ashore on Newcombe Sands. The tide was very low, and at 7.45, when it had risen sufficiently, the life-boat...
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On the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough assistant motor mechanic swam ashore from the life- boat to go to the help of a young man who had fallen from some cliffs.
Rewards: the thanks of the Institu- tion...
Mrs. Appennea Green, of Clapham
MRS. APPENNEA GREEN, of Clapham, who died at the beginning of August, at the age of 82, was one of the most enthusiastic and successful honorary secretaries whom the Institution has ever had. She started the Clapham Branch in 1931, with a...
Category: Obituaries
A Rowing Boat
On the morning of the 21st October three young men left harbour in a rowing boat.
The weather was squally and the boat soon became unmanageable. The wind strengthened until it was blowing a moderate gale from the...
Neptune
CALL TO COBLE At i.io p.m. on 2Oth April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Neptune had sprung a leak while crabbing near Hornsea.
A helicopter from Leconfield was standing by the...
Jabez, of Scarborough
— On the 23rd March, the brig Jabez, of Scarborough, was stranded on the Dutchman's Bank during a fresh gale from N.W. The Penmon life- boat put off, but after rescuing 5 of the shipwrecked crew, she capsized. She soon righted herself,...
Two Small Vessels, Whim and Saucy Lass
Again on the 14th November, two small vessels, the pilot cutter IVhim, and the lugger Saucy Lass, were seen to be at anchor on the weather side of the Holm Sand, in an extremely dangerous position, and with sig- nals of distress flying. A...