LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rebecca
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 14th of January. 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a small cabin cruiser with a crew of three was aground on the north side of the bar at the entrance to Irvine har- bour. At 6.8,...
Flamingo
FLARE SEEN At 5.25 p.m. on 24th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen five miles south of Ferryfield Airport. There was a moderate west-south-westerly breeze, with a choppy sea. It was...
John Edward King
John Edward King, coxswain of Bridlington lifeboat from 1965 to 1975 after serving as bowman from 1959 to 1963 and second coxswain from 1963 to1965. He was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1967 and 1969; the...
Category: Obituaries
Called away from Ceremony
Just after the opening ceremony for Exmouth RNLI’s new boathouse, the crews’ pagers went off and guests saw both lifeboats launched on a real rescue.
A catamaran sailor had been injured and was picked up by a passing...
Category: Articles
SWEPT FROM A BREAKWATER
PORTHCAWL | 16 DECEMBER
A fisherman was knocked off his feet and dragged into the sea after a large wave swept over a breakwater. Within minutes the crew of Porthcawl’s inshore lifeboat were on their way, and found him drifting a...
Category: Services
Lucia
Rhyl, Flintshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 10th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the assistant hon- orary secretary that the fishing boat Lucia was burning a flare off Llandulas.
The life-boat Anthony...
Two Sailing Dinghies
LAUNCH TO DINGHIES AND WOMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.33 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties near C 16 buoy in the river Mersey. The...
Sea King
YACHT'S CREW FOUND EXHAUSTED Hastings, Sussex. Following a telephone call from the motor mechanic to the honorary secretary at 5.0 on the afternoon of Tuesday the 3rd September, 1963, it was decided to launch the lifeboat M.T.C.,...
Farringay (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire - At n p.m. on 2ist March, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Farringay was aground on Salters Bank and a tug was awaiting high water to tow her off. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the...
Al Rosanjo
THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dover lifeboat station received a call from HM Coastguard at 1649 on Saturday May 12, 1979, telling him that a motor boat had been reported aground but that the sighting was being checked. Just over an hour later,...