LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lara
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.38 p.m.
on 21st September, 1969, the coastguard reported a cabin cruiser in difficulties off New Brighton slipway.
The life-boat Norman B. Cor left slipped her moorings at...
Dorothy
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.35 on the morning of the 6th of July, 1958, the coxswain saw a flare burning north of Whitby harbour. At seven o'clock the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a slight sea. There was a moderate...
Dawn (1)
Exmouth, Devon. At 9.48 on the morning of the 29th of September, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning flares one mile south of Otterton Head.
The life-boat Maria Noble was launched at 10...
Fishing Cobles (2)
COBLES AT SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.5 a.m. on 25th April, 1964, the life-boat second coxswain reported that there was a very heavy swell on the harbour bar and that several local fishing cobles, one of which had been reported to have...
Lorerelie
CABIN CRUISER SANK Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.40 p.m. on xyth May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress 5! miles north-west of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke left at 3.50 in a...
Lieut.-Commander Henrik De Booy
Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Seahawk
TOWED TO ABERDEEN At 10.45 p.m. on 4th August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen one mile south-east by east of Girdleness. There was a smooth sea with light airs from the west and it was just...
Star of Freedom
UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 a.m. on 3rd February 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Star of Freedom of Fleetwood had struck an unidentified object fifteen miles...
Jean
Stronsay, Orkney Islands. At 6.25 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1960, a local resident told the honorary secre- tary that a fishing boat was in difficulties close in to Warness and needed assist- ance. The life-boat John Gellatly...
Gladina
Exmouth, Devon. At 8.15 on the evening of the 30th June, 1961, the life- boat George and Mary Strachan, while returning from Plymouth to her station after survey, came up with the cabin cruiser Gladina of Torquay two miles south of Berry...