LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 in the morning, on the 30th of April, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen off Onchan Head.

At 12.45 the life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a thick fog with a...

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 11.59 on the night of the 29th of July, 1956, it was reported that the yacht Fairwood was dragging her anchor close to the life-boat's moorings. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea...

TO THE HELP OF A COBLE Flamborongh, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the weather became bad while the local fishing coble Pioneer was at sea, andat 11.55 the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was...

ANOTHER ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 19th of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen two miles north-north-east iof the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of De- cember, 1948, the harbour watchman telephoned that a fishing vessel was burning flares about four miles east of Kinnaird Head, and at 10.20, in the charge of Captain R. T....

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.16 on the even- ing of the 23rd of June, 1956, the life- boat coxswain received a message that the yacht Patrona, with a crew of two, was aground on Brake Sands. At 7.20 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a...

Filey, Yorkshire. —At 10.57 on the morning of the 17th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor cruiser Arielle, of Leith, had broken down five miles east-north-east of Filey Brigg, and at 11.10 the life- boat The Cuttle was...

Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling, Norfolk, who died on 25th February, at the age of eighty-five, joined the Palling Life-boat Crew at the age of eighteen.

Six years later, in 1870, he was appointed Coxswain, and served...