LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Edward and Muriel
FISHING-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Filey, Yorkshire.—At 4.36 in the after- noon of the 10th of December, the motor life-boat The Cuttle went out to search for the local motor fishing coble Edward and Muriel, which was overdue. The sea was calm, with a...
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.2 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard reported a man on a fishing boat wav- ing a flag, and at 10.15 the life-boat W.R.A. was launched, manned by her coxswain-and a...
Seagull
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — About 9.0 in the morning, on the 10th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in diffi- culties four miles to the south; and at 9.15 the life-boat Jeanie Speirs was launched. The...
A Dinghy (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire - At noon on 28th September, 1969, it was learnt that a dinghy was in difficulties off the Derby bathing pool. The lifeboat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 12.13 in a near gale force westerly wind with a...
A Boat (1)
MARCH 8TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
The Gourdon coastguard reported a small boat adrift off Johns-haven, and at 11.10 A.M.. the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A light southerly wind was blowing, but there...
Hoylake Coxswain's Bronze Medal.
Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, and two other men have won bronze medals for rescuing two men whose dinghy was in grave danger in very heavy seas off West Kirby in the river Dee. They went out to the rescue in a dinghy knowing that if...
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Lifeboat People
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: January Horace Eric Pengilly, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboat from 1967 to 1968 and then coxswain/mechanic until 1978. He had served as second coxswain from 1963 to 1967 and...
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A Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 12.50 on the after- noon of the 12th of May, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that a small boat needed help one mile south-east of the coastguard station. At one o'clock the life-boat, Thomas Markby, on temporary duty...
A Yacht (1)
EMPTY YACHT FOUND AFTER COMBINED SEARCH Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the no. 1 pilot vessel Sir Thomas...
Mr Erskine Childers
It is also with great regret that we record the death of His Excellency the President of Ireland, Mr Erskine Hamilton Childers. The condolences of the Institution have been conveyed to his widow and the RNLI was represented at the funeral in...
Category: Obituaries