LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Uncle Tom
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.36 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that the local motor boat Uncle Tom, which had a crew of three, had lost her bearings and had made fast to...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.32 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from a resident of Egremont that a sailing dinghy had been swamped by the wash from a liner, and that one man was in the water near the...
Valentia Life-Boat
A collective letter of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-beat Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., has been sent to Coxswain John Sugrue and the crew of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat for their efforts on...
Category: Services
A Launch (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a small half-decked launch appeared to be in difficulties off Sully...
Good Fellowship
Blyth, Northumberland. At 9.40 on the evening of the 26th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a resident of Seaton Sluice had seen a red flare two miles east of Collywell Bay. Further enquiries were made, after...
Haminea
INJURED CAPTAIN At 7.30 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coxswain heard from the honorary secretary that the life-boat would be needed to bring ashore the captain of the motor vessel Haminea of London who was badly injured. At 8.30 the life-boat...
Delft
HELP FOR DUTCH At 2.5 p.m. on 29th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that the Dutch fishing vessel Delft was approaching Spurn with an injured man on board and that a doctor's services were requested. There...
Mi Amigo
HEARD RADIO MESSAGE At 3.55 p.m. on 27th July, 1964, the second coxswain of the life-boat told the honorary secretary that a message had been picked up from Radio Caroline, a broadcasting station on board the motor vessel Mi Amiga, that a...
None (3)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1960, a request was received from the Commissioners of Irish Lights for the life-boat to bring ashore an injured keeper from Tuskar Rock light- house and take...
A Fighter Aircraft
Kirkcudbright. At 10.53 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed by the police that a fighter aircraft had crashed in the vicinity of Blackshaw Flats in the area of Southerness. It had apparently...