LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mark Twain
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6.52 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, it was learnt that the Nab pilot cutter was trying to tow a dismasted yacht. The assistance of the life-boat was requested. There was a fresh west-south-westerly breeze, a choppy...
Diane
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
About 11.30 in the morning messages were received from the coastguard and the R.A.F. that a yacht off Newlyn was dragging her anchors in a dangerous position and in need of immediate help....
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OCTOBER 19TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HERRIDES.
At 2.30 in the afternoon, the doctor on the island of Colonsay telephoned asking for the life-boat’s help for a boy who had been badly injured and was in urgent need of surgical aid. A...
A Dinghy (9)
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.28 p.m. on i2th August, 1966, two men, who had left St. Ives for Carbis Bay at 4 o'clock in a rubber dinghy, were reported missing.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
Minnetonka
APRIL 20TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At ten o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned that the customs officer at Cockenzie had reported a ship sending up flares in Aberlady Bay. The motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched at...
INJURED TEEN REACHES SAFETY
TENBY | 9 APRIL
Tenby all-weather lifeboat crew raced to the aid of a 14-year-old girl, who had fallen on rocks at Barafundle Beach. Suffering suspected back and neck injuries, including a broken...
Category: Articles
Aimee-Leone
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 13th August, 1961, news was received that the yacht Aimee-Leone was firing red flares about five hundred yards south-east of Hast- ings harbour. A fresh west-south- westerly wind was blowing...
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Coxswain Thomas James
The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
Category: Obituaries