LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Remembrance
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1959, the coxswain, who had just returned from fishing in his motor boat, learnt that the local coble Remembrance was still at sea. As the sea on the bar might be dangerous for...
Beaver Ash
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6.20 p.m. on 19th November, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that the life-boat would be needed to bring a sick man ashore from the m.v. Beaver Ash, The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 7 o'clock....
D'Artagnon and Hedvig Sophia
NORTH DEAL.—On the 11th November, while a heavy S.S. W. gale was blowing, signals of distress were observed, whereupon the Life-boat's crew assembled, and after some delay, on account of the water being low at the time, the boat was...
Services of the Life-Boats In July, August and September, 1954. 161 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats In July, August and September. 227 Lives Rescued
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Mrs Betty Foster,
FEBRUARY 1993 Mrs Betty Foster, chairman of Driffield ladies' guild since 1983. She served as secretary for 16 years from 1967 and was awarded a Gold badge in 1991..
Category: Obituaries
A Vessal Called Seierskrandsen
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Life-boat O.N. 729 - While on passage from Baltimore to Crosshaven on the loth August, 1967, the life-boat John R. Webb came up with a small rowing boat with four people on board.
They had lost an oar and were drifting...
A Fishing Boat (1)
FISHING BOAT BURNS FLARES Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.10 on the evening of Sunday the 15th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the coastguard and the police that distress flares had been seen three and a half miles south-east of the...
Enchantress
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 3.9 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the yacht Enchantress, of St. Ives, which had three naval officers on board, had capsized half a mile south of The Lizard signal station,...