LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rongorge
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1953, it was reported that the yacht Rongorge, which had anchored off Gallows Point with a crew of four, was dragging, and at 8.45 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...
Charles E. Fielding
MR. CHARLES E. FIELDING deputy chairman of the Manchester and District branch, who had been an honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for 55 years and an honorary life governor of the Institution, died in the Isle of Man in October...
Category: Obituaries
PATRICK MURPHY
Ex-Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down, a gold medal holder, died on 28th January, 1969, at the age of 81. His first recorded service with the life-boats was in 1914, and in 1942 he won the gold medal for rescuing 39 men under...
Category: Obituaries
Gibralta
At 10 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a vessel was seen flashing a light about a quarter of a mile east of Kings Scar. There was a moderate north east by easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat Ann...
Fishing Boats (1)
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 3.8 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, it was learned that six fishing vessels were still at sea and concern was felt for their safety in view of the deteriorating weather conditions. There was a strong gale from the...
A Dinghy (4)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 4.5 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, news was received that a dinghy with two people on board was overdue. The life-boat EMM.
Gordon Cubbin slipped her moorings at 4.15 in a moderate north north...
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Newquay, Cornwall. At 10.35 p.m.
on 4th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that one of two men being pursued by the police had run into the sea at Crantock and was swimming towards West Pentere. At 10.40 the IRB...
Eyemouth's
Unmistakable, despite the Tarn o'Shanter disguise, Ronnie Corbett takes the helm of Eyemouth's Waveney class lifeboat which brought him to Eyemouth to open the ladies' guild's first ever gala last August. It was linked to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mattias
Two incidents on opposite sides of the English Channel during January resulted in seven seamen being landed from leaking commercial vessels.
Safely ashore - one. The four crew from the coaster Manias are pictured (right)...
Happy Birthday!
The West Wight guild celebrated its 25th anniversary on 9 May 1996 with a successful buffet supper at the Royal Solent Yacht Club in Yarmouth.
At the event, which was attended by almost 100 people including the president,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs