LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pepita
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of Novem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor barge Pepita had broken down with engine trouble near Andrew's Spit.
At...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary received a report that a man was missing from a party of visitors who had been bathing at Keel Strand. The life-boat Rowland Watts left her...
Coxswain James Roach
The Institution also announces with deep regret the deaths of the following former coxswains:— COXSWAIN JAMES ROACH, of Plymouth.
COXSWAIN EDDIE MADRON, of Penlee..
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Eddie Madron
The Institution also announces with deep regret the deaths of the following former coxswains:— COXSWAIN JAMES ROACH, of Plymouth.
COXSWAIN EDDIE MADRON, of Penlee..
Category: Obituaries
A Whaler from H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki
Weymouth, Dorset. At 3.8 on the afternoon of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a whaler from H.M.N.Z.S.
Taranaki, with three men aboard, hadcapsized in the middle of Portland harbour...
Margaret James
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 4.17 on the afternoon of the 30th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing coble appeared to be broken down north-north-west of the coastguard look-out. The life-boat...
Sea Ranger
YACHT AT STANDSTILL At 4.56 p.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties outside Holyhead breakwater and at 5.15 the lifeboat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched. A gale was...
Gold Mist (1)
Dover, Kent.—At 1.20 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1957, the Sand- gate coastguard telephoned that the yacht Gold Mist, of Newhaven, appeared to be making little progress in heavy weather two and a half miles south of Copt Point....
A Dinghy (7)
At 12.12 a.m. on I9th August, 1966 it was reported that a small dinghy with one occupant was overdue from a fishing trip.
There was a calm sea. It was two hours before low water. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange proceeded...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry - At 3.35 p.m.
on 14th September, 1966, three men were reported stranded on the Blasket Islands.
There was a westerly gale with a very rough sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Rowland...