LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 3.15 p.m. on 20th January, 1965, the local nurse informed the honorary secretary that a young woman needed hospital treatment and as no other was available requested the use of the lifeboat.
At 3.45 the patient and nurse...
Kirsten Frank
Blyth, Northumberland. At 11.15 p.m. on 24th January, 1966, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel, the Kirsten Frank, had gone aground on the Sow and Pigs rocks.
The life-boat Winston...
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At 7.48 p.m. on nth April, 1967, it was reported that a boy was stranded on the cliffs at Aberbach, Dinas Cross. The lifeboat Howard Marryat was launched at 8 o'clock in a strong north north easterly wind on the ebb tide. On reaching the...
A Cabin Cruiser
Arbroath, Angus - At 10.40 a.m.
on 13th August, 1967, the motor mechanic was informed that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties near Fairway buoy at the mouth of the Tay. A yacht in the vicinity had been unable to tow the...
Andrew Cruickshank and Kenneth Connor
Andrew Cruickshank and Kenneth Connor were appearing at Nottingham Theatre Royal the week the box office opened for 'Premises Premises', the show performed free for Nottingham and District branch by Cambridge Footlights on July 18.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By a Damaged Life-Boat
On the night of 2ist. December, 1945, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued eleven men from two naval motor fishing vessels which had stranded on the Gunfleet Sands in a very heavy sea. The life-boat's rudder was damaged and Coxswain...
Category: Articles
Obituary
WE regret to report the death from wounds of SERGEANT CHARLES DIXON, assistant messenger at the house of the Institution. Sergeant Dixon was a Reservist of the Guards and was called up at the outbreak of war. He was twice wounded, the second...
Category: Obituaries
Henry Morton of Sunderland
On the 10th December, at 8 P.M., the brig Henry Morton, of Sunderland, got on shore on the Sizewell Bank, there being a heavy surf on the bank at the time. The Institution's Thorpeness life-boat was launched, and went to the aid of her...
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MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
Tuskar
Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 5.30 on the morning of 19th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Tuskar of Groningen was being aban- doned by her crew in a position 15 miles south-west of...