LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Windsor Lad, and John and Mary
OCTOBER 18TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and during the morning the lifeboat coxswain was on watch, as some motor fishing cobles were out at sea. At 1.25 P.M.
Kithnos
Sick seaman saved THE 18,000 TON GREEK tanker Kithnos was heading north of the Humber light vessel at 0418 on January 15,1987 when one of her crew was reported to be suffering from a severe nosebleed, requiring medical...
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain'* Certificate of Service.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, PENSION, and a SPECIAL GRATUITY of £80, have been awarded to: JOHN- STRACHAN, 15 years coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat.
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Category: Awards
Brownie
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. — About 8.45 on the morning of the 13th of September, 1950, the life-boat coxswain saw a motor launch apparently in difficulties about a third of a mile west-south-west of the Gimblet Rock.
She...
Jarvis
HELIOGRAPH FLASHES At 8.2 p.m. on nth July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor-boat appeared to have broken down. Her crew of four were waving and flashing a heliograph.
The tide had...
Carol
At 6.45 a.m. on 10th May, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was firing flares under the cliff off Pett. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.53 in a strong south westerly breeze and a very...
Two Canoes
Canoes upset ST ABBS, Berwickshire, lifeboat on September 17, 1972, made a fast getaway when two canoes capsized in Coldingham Bay. The wind had been blowing from a northerly direction for several days and there was a considerable swell...
Mr Charles Noden, of Blackpool
By the death, on 16th April, of Mr.
Charles Noden, of Blackpool, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a very warm friend and devoted worker. He was a firm advocate of the Life-boat Cause, and his cheery personality...
Category: Obituaries
Guiding Star
IRVINE, AYESHIRE.—The schooner Guiding Star, of and from Kuncorn, for Irvine with salt, while endeavouring to enter the harbour, stranded on the bar, in a strong N.W. gale and a heavy sea on the 1st November. The Life-boat Bwsbie put off to...