75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
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CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant abont three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...
Appledore, Devon.—On the afternoon of the 19th November a resident at Westward Ho telephoned that the motor trawler Clarissa, of Bideford, was burning red flares a short distance out from Westward Ho. The wind was only light, and the sea was...
Dover, Kent.— At 11.9 on the morn- ing of the 27th of August, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard said that a vessel at sea had informed him, through Niton Radio, that the motor launch Sea Gipsy, bound for Dover from Calais, was in difficulties...
SECOND COXSWAIN PUT ABOARD YACHT Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 14th April, 1963, the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the harbour bar. There was a moderate to fresh south-westerly...
YACHT TOWED IN AFTER CREW SCRAMBLE ASHORE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.3 on the morning of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 34-foot auxiliary yacht White Heather, which had anchored off Clacton beach,...
Penlee, Cornwall - At n a.m. on 28th May, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that the life-boat would be needed at about 8 a.m. the following day to bring an injured man ashore from the Dutch motor vessel Oranje...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 10.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a girl had been seen floating from the beach on a rubber mattress. The life- boat Louise...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater...