LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alderman A. H. Drinkwater, J.P., of Coventry
By the death on 21st August, at the age of eighty-three, of Alderman A. H.
Drinkwater, three times Mayor of Coventry, an honorary freeman of the city, and a man who devoted himself whole-heartedly to public and philan-...
Category: Obituaries
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Aith, Shetlands.—At eleven on the night of the 19th of November, 1948, a doctor telephoned that one of his patients on the Island of Papa Stour had met with an accident and asked if the life-boat would take him there.
A...
Oranje Nassau
Penlee, Cornwall - At n a.m. on 28th May, 1966, the honorary secretary was told that the life-boat would be needed at about 8 a.m. the following day to bring an injured man ashore from the Dutch motor vessel Oranje...
Isabella (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...
Fishing Cobles (2)
Holy Island, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 20th February the coastguard reported that the sea was very rough, and breaking on the harbour bar. As seven of the local fishing cobles were at sea, the motor life-boat Milburn was launched...
Polstjarnan
SWEDISH YACHT IN PERIL Hasting*, Sussex.—On the 22nd of October, 1947, the Swedish yacht Polstjarnan was alongside the pier with her engine broken down. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that she was bumping badly against the...
Miranda
Barrow, Lancashire. At 1.15 on the morning of the llth June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with two men aboard was overdue and that anxiety was felt for their safety. At two o'clock, when the...
Dolores
Redcar, Yorkshire - At 2.30 p.m. on 23rd November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile east of the life-boat station. The life-boat Aguila Wren was launched at 3.10. It was...
Fishing Cobles
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.50 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1957, there was a rough sea and an ebbing tide, and the honorary secretary considered it would be dangerous for the Staithes cobles to try and reach theharbour unescorted....
Jenny and Yacht Our Jim
Dover, Kent.—At 1.30 in the after- noon of the 8th of April, 1950, the life- boat mechanic saw a rowing boat in the outer harbour in need of help.
At 1.40 the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, left her...