LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
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Category: Articles
Pamelia June
The No. 2 motor life-boat William and Kate John- ston put out at 11.15 A.M. on the 17th November as it had been reported that a boat was in difficulties abreast of Leasowe Castle. A very strong N.E.
breeze was blowing, with...
Mr. Charles Livingston, Liverpool
Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.
He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...
Category: Obituaries
Patriot
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—• During the afternoon of the 19th September, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Patriot went to the Blackwater Light-vessel to fetch a man ashore.
As, when she was due to return, a strong...
Favourite
Hastings, Sussex.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of February, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a signal.
She appeared to have broken down two miles south-east of the...
Marita
MOTOR YACHT WITHOUT FUEL Selsey, Sussex.—-At 4.5 in the morning of the 31st of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a motor yacht, short of fuel and moored to the stern of the Owers Light-vessel, needed help, and the- motor...
A Motorised Rubber Dinghy
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.10 p.m. on 5th April, 1970, it was learnt that a motorised rubber dinghy with three skin divers aboard had run out of fuel and was drifting seaward off Dalkey island. Two of the divers had swum ashore and...
Ramadhan
Penlee, Cornwall - At 5 p.m. on loth September, 1966, the life-boat was asked to take a sick man off the motor vessel Ramadhan which would be arriving in Mounts Bay at about 8.45. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 7.30. It was low...
Elvina
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 9.50 p.m. on 26th July, 1967, news was given that the yacht Elvina, in a position four miles north north west of the life-boat house, was making no headway against the wind and tide and was drifting out to sea. Her...
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SICKNESS ON SARK At 3.40 p.m. on i4th January, 1964, the St. John Ambulance Commissioner informed the honorary secretary that a sick man on Sark needed hospital treatment.
There were light easterly airs with a slight sea,...