LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Echo, of Lowestoft
The Yarmouth large Life-boat Mark Lane was taken afloat on the 8th March, as the fishing-lugger Echo, of Lowestoft, was seen to be in great danger, she having become unmanageable during a heavy gale from S.W. by S. Driving down Yar- mouth...
Inaugural Ceremony at Llandudno
THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
Category: Inaugurations
A Vessel (2)
Aith, Shetland*, and St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—llth December. A vessel in difficulties off the Hebrides sent out a wireless message, but her position was not identified and as it was thought that she might be in the neighbourhood of...
Messina
Cromarty.—On the afternoon of the 23rd December the local fishing boat Messina, with three men on board, was seen to be in a dangerous position off South Suter Point. She was trying to get back after lobster fishing, but could make no...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To PATRICK SLINKY, on his retirement, after serving for 28J years as coxswain and 11 years as second coxswain of the Bally- cotton life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To MICHAEL BONOGHUE, on...
Category: Awards
Fishing Cobles (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire. — Four fishing cobles put to sea in moderate weather at 7 A.M. on the 31st December, 1937.
Later on, conditions got bad, and by 10.45 A.M. a moderate gale was blowing from the N.N E., with a rough...
George and Martha, and Mizpah (1)
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
A Sea-plane
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—12th January, 1938. A sea-plane had been seen flying very low, and it was feared that she had come down in the sea, but nothing could be found. The search was made by the St...
A Bathing Float
Torbay, Devon.—Shortly after noon on the 19th August, 1938, the Churston police reported, through the coastguard, that a boy on a bathing float was being carried out to sea off Broadsands. A moderate W.S.W.
breeze was...
New Year Honours
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the New Year Honours for 1957 was:— C.B.E.
Alderman T. J. Patterson, chairman of the Carrickfergus branch.
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Category: Awards