LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light...
Gadfly
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.40 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties in Dur- leston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby, was launched in a strong south-west...
Foxtrott
Berwick-on-Twe«d, Northumberland.— At 10.12 on the night of the llth of July, 1948, the coastguard reported red verey lights being fired from a yacht off Bummouth, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at 10.26 in a light...
A Christmas Gift
JUST before Christmas a packet was brought to the Institution by an official of the Post Office, who wished to be certain that it was intended for the Institution. It had the Oxford post- mark and was addressed "To life-boat...
Category: Donations
Religious Services
RELIGIOUS ceremonies associated with the Life-boat Service have been held in recent months in Bolton. Hoylake, New Brighton, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey in the north- west district of England; Bude, Clo- velly, Land's End...
Category: Articles
Flying Christine
MOTOR LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN Selsey, Sussex.—At about 8.40 in the morning of February 6th, 1947, the coastguard reported that two motor' launches were flying signals two miles east-south-east of Selsey Bill Tower and it .was thought that...
Mr. Barrie Bennetts
Mr. Barrie Bennetts, who had received the highest award the Institution can make to a voluntary worker, that of appointment as honorary life governor, died on the 26th of July, 1958, at the age of 75. He had been honorary secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson
Coxswain Joseph Parkinson of Lytham-St.-Anne's died while still in the service of the Institution on the 17th of March, 1959, at the age of 59.
He was assistant mechanic from 1931 to 1957 and coxswain from 1947 to...
Category: Obituaries
Tamar
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 8.18 p.m.
on i2th August, 1965, the police said that a small yacht, Tamar, required assistance off Swanpool Beach. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
Helena
Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on 2nd October, 1965, Shoreham coastguard told the motor mechanic that red flares had been sighted west of Newhaven harbour. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 7.25, two and a hah0 hours after high...