LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mona
At 7.50 P.M. on the 9th July a telephone mes- sage was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Office that the Crosby lightship had reported a fishing boat ashore in a dangerous position near C.2 Black Buoy in the Crosby Channel....
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MARCH 24TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. The military reported an attack tenmiles south of Flat Head, but when the lifeboat reached the position, three and a half hours later, she found nothing. After she had returned explosions and gunfire were...
Gold Medal for Hartlepool.
The gold medal for gallantry has been awarded to Lieuteaant W. H. Bennison, C.G.M.,R.N.V.R., coxswain of the Hartlepool life-boat, the silver medal to H. W. Jefferson, the motor mechanic, and the bronze medal to each of the seven other...
Category: Articles
Alhena
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with two people on board was ashore on the Shingles.
As the weather was deteriorating, the...
Foxhound
On the night of the 18th October the honorary secretary received word from West Angle and St. Ann's Head that rockets were being fired in Mill Bay. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and visibility was...
Lillian
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER NEAR ROCKS Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard reported that a small cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down half a mile south of Boddam, and at 1.45 the...
Conference
Conference 155) plank and frame wooden construction. Burdensome sail and displacement-type power yachts are proper candidates.
The only overlap of applicability occurs in the case of fibreglass and aluminium. But even here...
Category: Meetings
Small Fishing Boats
Whilst the small fishing-boats were returning from the fishing-grounds on the 9th January, the sea became so heavy at the mouth of the harbour that the Life-boat TheopMlm Sidney Eclialaz was launched to stand by and assist the boats. The sea...
A Dinghy, Rowing Boat and Motor Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At 12.37 P-m- on 28th July, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties two and a half miles north-east of the station.
Three other youths...
Imogene & Harmony
Very heavy '.
seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was immediately ordered out and...