LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Member of Committee of Management
SIR ERIC SEAL, K.B.E., C.B., Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Works, and Chairman of the Civil Service Life- boat Fund, has been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution.
After service in the R.A.F. during...
Category: Committee
Catherine & Ellen
Again, on the 1st December, the Lifeboat went out in response to signals of distress shown from the schooner Catherine & Ellen, which had been overtaken by strong gale from the N.N.W., and which had brought up far out in the bay. The...
Taka-Maru
On the 3ist August, 1965, the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, rescued the crew of two of the yacht Taka-Maru of Rhyl. A full account of this service will appear in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Correction
IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..
Category: Articles
Rescue from Capsized Speedboat
THE two members of the crew of the Easmey, Hampshire, inshore rescue boat, Helmsman Robert Faro and Roy Richards, have each been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum for rescuing two people from a speedboat which capsized...
Category: Services
A Trawler (5)
NOVEMBER 2ND. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. A trawler had bombed, but her crew, several of them wounded, were picked up by another trawler.
Rewards, £14 0S. 6d..
Sharon's Rose
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The brig Sharon's Rose, of Whitby, bound from Shields to Dieppe with coal, was seen to run on the beach at Holkham, during a strong breeze from N.N.E. and a very heavy sea, at about 1 P.M. on the 29th October. The Eliza...
Fishing Boats (4)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At~7.30 A.M. on the 25th March, 1939, the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the...
Davento
Southwold, Suffolk. At 1.50 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Southwold. At 1.55 the IRB launched in a moderate gusting to fresh south-westerly breeze and came up with the...
None (9)
PATIENT At ii a.m. on 25th April, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a man with a serious haemorrhage had to be brought to the mainland for hospital treatment. The patient was embarked on the life-boat, Mabel Marion...