LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats have beaten their previous record by col- lecting £203 11s. lOd. at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life- boat. Their previous highest total was £199 in 1931. This was their thirteenth...
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Young Bert
At 7.30 on the morning of the 6th January a vessel was observed on the West Barnard Sand with a signal of distress flying.
Information was given to the Coxswain and the No. 1 Life-boat Bolton was smartly launched. On...
Collingwood
On the evening of the 27th July the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht near Perch Rock was signalling for help, and the motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 9.10 P.M.
A strong west breeze was...
Lil
At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received from the lightkeeper on the East Pier that two yachts were adrift.
A gale was blowing from the west and the sea was rough. The motor life- boat...
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...
A Sailing Boat
Snoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 27th August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized outside the harbour.
The occupants of the boat, two men and...
Louisa
^Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter...
Awards for Two Mechanics
MR. HENRY PEGG, motor mechanic of the Dover (Kent) life-boat, and Mr. Wilfred Cook, travelling mechanic of the Institution, were awarded testimonials on parchment by the Royal Humane Society for rescuing a man who had fallen into the sea at...
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A Pinnace (1)
OCT. 5TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. In the morning of the 4th October a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E. of the N.E. corner of Unst Island, and a pinnace went out to her help. On the following...
Expedite
A fine service was performed by the Laetitia, the Life-boat stationed here, on the 13th November. the morning of that day she went off to tow of the steam-tug Bairibow to a Norwegian vessel named Expedite, belong- Iing to Drobeck, which had...