LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George Parsons
George Parsons, who served in The Mumbles lifeboat crew for 36 years and, more recently, has been head launcher for the boat. He was assistant mechanic from 1952 to 1957..
Category: Obituaries
CIVIL SERVICE LIFE-BOAT FUND
The annual report of the Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund for 1969 discloses that the total subscription received last year amounted to £28,623. This was a record. While the increase constituted arrears from the previous...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (3)
SURVIVORS TO HOSPITAL Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.10 p.m. on i4th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Nab pilot cutter had rescued four people from a yacht which had overturned. The life-boat was required as some of the...
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CLIFF FATALITY Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.45 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, the coastguard at Wyke Regis told the honorary secretary that a girl had fallen over the cliffs at White Nothe and appeared to be seriously injured. There was a moderate...
A Cabin Cruiser
Hartlepool, Co. Durham - At 7 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties three quarters of a mile north-east of Hartlepool.
The life-boat City of Bradford...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 12.25 P-mon loth May, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the lifeboat could be used to convey an urgent surgical case from Jura Island to Islay, as the weather was too bad for the small ferry...
Prelude
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 6.10 a.m. on 2ist February, 1967, the French trawler Prelude was reported to be in difficulties. Her position was about five miles west of Ardnamurchan Point. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordin Cubbin proceeded at...
Lorna Cordelia, Jaqueline Stevenson
Boulmer, Northumberland - At 4 p.m. on 22nd February, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two cobles from Boulmer were overdue.
The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 4.21 in a...
Rose Marie
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 2.55 p.m. on 1st November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat which had been under observation for some time appeared to be making little headway against...
NN157
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 3.58 p.m. on 1st April, 1968, news was received that a fishing vessel was making distress signals half a mile east of the east breakwater. The lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 4.3 in a fresh...