LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
King Fergus
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 12.55 P-m- on Jyth Julys 1966, the m.f.v.
King Fergus was reported to have had engine failure north of Killintringan lighthouse. The life-boat The Jeanie left her moorings at 1.6 in a gentle...
Enterprise
FOULED PROPELLERS Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.15 p.m. on 22nd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about four miles south-east of Filey. There was a slight sea with very little wind. It was one hour...
Prevalent
OCTOBER 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9.41 in the morning the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor trawler was flying distress signals two miles north-north-east of Berry Head. A light north-westerly breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea....
Asie
BARMOUTH, NOETH WALES.—At noon on the 27th November The Jones Oibb Life-boat was launched, Captain LA PEIMAUDAYE, E.N., District Inspector of Lifeboats, who was at the station on a visit of inspection, going out in her, to the assistance of...
Lindfar and Catherine
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 11.30 A.M. on the 3rd February the fishing boats Lindfar and Catherine, of Eyemouth, were seen making for the harbour. A moderate to whole northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea,and heavy snow...
An Aeroplane
Sheringbam, Norfolk.—On the 27th March, at the request of the Chief Constable of Bedfordshire, the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary put out to search for the Duchess of Bedford who, some days before, had set out on a short trip by...
Ancotts
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th of September, 1956, the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was ashore at Western Carricks and that two of her crew had been brought ashore by a motor launch. At 12.40 in the after- noon, the life-boat Edgar...
Carmela
Dungeness, Kent. At ten o'clock on the night of the 22nd of June, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small coaster was ashore half a mile north-east of the life-boat station with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.32 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from a resident of Egremont that a sailing dinghy had been swamped by the wash from a liner, and that one man was in the water near the...
Valentia Life-Boat
A collective letter of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-beat Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., has been sent to Coxswain John Sugrue and the crew of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat for their efforts on...
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