LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swee
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. — About eight o'clock on the evening of the 13th of April, 1957, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the auxili- ary yacht Swee, of Port St. Mary, was trying to attract the attention of the Langness...
Ystwyth
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 22nd of Septem- ber. 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that two people on board a yacht were in difficulties off the pier and were baling and signal- ling. The...
Pres. Roosevelt
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. On the 26th of April, 1958, the coaster Pres. Roosevelt, of Groningen, was anchored a mile north-west of the life- boat station with engine trouble and was sheltering from the weather. A boat with four...
Rhodesia
During the afternoon of the 3rd December the Coxswain of the Life-boat Docea Chap- man was informed that an attempt was going to be made to save the steam trawler Rhodesia, of Grimsby, which had stranded five miles to the south of Withernsea...
Harriet
On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah Jane Turner was...
A Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1959, the police at Holy well told the coxswain that two young men were missing after a canoe had capsized off Greenfields. At 3.10 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched in...
Aileena
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles south-west of Orford light. After further enquiries had been made...
A Helicopter
At 3.37 p.m. on I4th June, 1966, there was an alert that a helicopter had crashed in the Solent near West Lepe buoy. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left her moorings together with.
the IRB at 3.55 p.m. There was a...
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (6)
On the 14th November, 1939, the Yarmouth life-boat rescued the crew of twelve of one of H.M. Trawlers. Coxswain Walter O. Cotton was awarded the silver medal.
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Fishing Cobles (1)
DECEMBER 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN - BY - THE - SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND. Eight cobles were out fishing, and a fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the coastguard...