LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seawitch
YACHT TOWED IN AS GALE SPRINGS UP Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 6.35 on the evening of the 8th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help immediately twenty-five miles north-west of Portpatrick....
Appledore June 21 1986:
Appledore, June 21, 1986: Mrs Trevor Thomas demonstrates the only way to christen an Atlantic 21. In this case it was Manchester and District No XXXII, funded by an appeal inspired by a former Lord Mayor of Manchester, Mr Trevor Thomas. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary
WE regret to report the death of Mr. ROBERT BIRKBECK, which took place on the 19th November, 1920, at the age of eighty-three after a loug illness.
Mr. Birkbeck had been a Member of the Committee of Management since ability...
Category: Obituaries
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SURGEON AND ANESTHETIST TAKEN TO ISLAND Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd July, 1962, a request was received from the Kilmarnock infirmary for the life-boat to take a surgeon and an anaesthetist to a hospital in Lamlash,...
Norval, of Seaham
Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...
John
MARGATE. —At 1 A.M. on the 28th October, during a gale from the E.N.E.
and a very heavy sea, it was reported that a barge was ashore opposite Birchington, and that men could be seen in the rigging.
The...
Pioneer
BRIXHAM.—During a very strong from the E. with severe snow-storms and a very heavy sea, the trawler Pioneer, belonging -to Brixham, was observed close to the rocks near Fishcombe Point on the 10th March, having parted from her moorings, and...
Rosaline
Buckie, Banffshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel aground on the West Muck rocks, three quarters of a mile from Buckie harbour, was burning flares....
MacCoy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 5.45 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1950, the Porthscatho coastguard telephoned that the local motor pleasure boat MacCoy needed help. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood,...
Louci Gougy
MAY 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.10 A.M. a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through theDeal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...