LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dido C.
Ilfracombe, Devon.—The new motor life-boat Rosabella rendered her first service on the 16th September, when she landed the crew of three of the ketch Dido C, of Barnstaple. At 10.28 A.M.
the life-boat was launched in a...
Alcha
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.40 on the morning of the llth of March, 1955, a postman told the mechanic of the life- boat that a ship was on fire about one and a half miles south-east of the life- boat station, and that a small tugcould be seen...
Speedwell
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flashing white light had been seen four miles west-north-west of Aberystwyth. The honorary secretary went...
Centurion
Dover, Kent - At 10.17 P-m- 5tn August, 1966, the brigantine Centurion, returning from the tall ship race to Copenhagen, radioed that one of her crew needed medical attention. At 10.40 the life-boat Southern Africa was launched with a doctor...
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MEDICAL AID At 9.48 a.m. on 26th January, 1966, the local ferryman informed the honorary secretary that the resident doctor on the island of Jura requested assistance in conveying a sick patient from the Feolin Pier to Port...
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.. who died on 6th May at the age of eighty- five, had spent twenty-nine years of his life in the service of the Institu- tion. Born in 1850, he entered the navy in 1863, and served in it for eighteen years....
Category: Obituaries
Washington
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.
on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.
The weather was...
A Rowing Boat
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that two men were in diffi- culties in a rowing boat. They had anchored two miles east of Lytham pier and were flying a...
Tesla
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 5.50 in the morning, on the 27th of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile north of Rattray Head. At 6.10 the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgoiv, was launched. The...
Cuan
Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.29 on the night of the 2nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that the Swedish ship Kengis had taken a yacht in tow and was making for a position one mile west of Port Erin. The vessel had...