LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Apeloiter
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.02 a.m.
on 9th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored one hundred yards offshore of Chesil Cove. Two men on board had come ashore to obtain fuel...
Ceol-na-Mara
Aberdeen's Arun class lifeboat was on service for almost seven hours in gale force winds when the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara sprang a leak some 30 miles from the station.The Arun, BP Forties, was launched at 0430 on 12 February 1995...
Madeline Rickmers (2)
RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Civil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...
Health & Home
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Jochelle
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser was aground on the Barrow sands. At 11.40 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No.
30) was...
Westmorland
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At10.10 a.m. on 28th November, 1969, a report was received that a member of the crew of the m.f.v. Westmorland needed urgent medical attention. At 10.30 the life-boat R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings in a...
A Dinghy (8)
At 4.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a red dinghy seemed in trouble off Penlee.
Meanwhile, Penlee fog station reported that the dinghy was in danger of being carried on to the rocks. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary...
Bobbie
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 3.49 p.m.
on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Bobbie was firing distress signals three to four miles east south east of Ramsey harbour. The lifeboat Thomas Corbett was...
Ashdene, of Sunderland
Amble, Northumberland - At 1.14 a.m. on i5th July, 1967, it was learnt that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Ashdene of Sunderland required urgent medical assistance. The life-boat Millie Walton, with a doctor on board, slipped her...
Maurice Hutchens
Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens was awarded the silver medal for the service to Tungufoss on September 19, 1981; he first joined Sennen Cove lifeboat crew in 1957, becoming assistant mechanic in 1959, second coxswain/ assistant mechanic... - View image in PDF
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