LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
High seas, low fuel
3 April: A father and son were bringing their yacht from Troon to Whitehaven when they ran out of fuel in a force 9, 12 miles from their destination. Workington’s Tyne class lifeboat launched at 4.45pm and headed...
Category: Articles
Crocodile
PENARTH.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 7th March, in answer to signals of distress, the Life-boat Joseph Denman was launched, and boarded the brig Crocodile, of Dartmouth, which vessel had got ashore on the west end of Cardiff sands. A strong gale was...
J. Prizeman, of Plymouth
At about 8.30 P.M., the Life-boat was launched for the fourth time this day, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men and the master's wife, from the sloop J. Prizeman, of Plymouth, which had also stranded. This service was even more...
Gladiolus
The trawler Gladiolus, of Lowestoft, stranded on the North Pier Extension when inward bound on the 16th May. In answer to her signals of distress the No. 2 Life- boat Stock Exchange was launched and proceeded to her. On arrival the Captain...
Monarch
The sprit-sail barge Monarch, of London, whilst bound from London to Yarmouth, got into difficulties when off Harwich on the 6th January, owing to her steering gear getting out of order. In response to her distress signals, which were re-...
Yacht Beaver
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22nd April, the steam-yacht Beaver, of Berwick, was seen in the bay showing signals of distress while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.N.W. The Life-boat John and Janet put off to her assistance at 5 P.M. and...
Marjellen
Cromer, Norfolk.—-At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 4th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that he thought a yacht was flying distress signals two miles east of the coastguard station, and at 6.25 the No. 1 life-boat Henry...
Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Dixon, K.C.B.
THE committee of management greatly regret the death, on 28th July, at the age of 72. of their colleague Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Bland Dixon, K.C.B. Sir Robert concluded a dis- tinguished career in the navy by serving as engineer-in...
Category: Obituaries
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 12.40 a.m. on ist January, 1966, the area commissioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade informed the honorary secretary that a doctor on Sark requested the lifeboat's assistance in transporting a sick child...
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TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 6 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that he had a patient requiring hospital treatment and as no other boat was available requested the use of the life-boat.
The...