LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hyperion
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 7.50 A.M.
on the 17th March, 1939, the life-boat coxswain noticed that the local motor fishing boat Hyperion, which was making for harbour, did not dare attempt to get in. A strong N.E. gale was...
A Cabin Cruiser
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.55 p.m. on 15th December, 1968, news was received that a boat was in difficulties off Sully island. The lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris on evaluation trials at the station slipped her moorings at 5.15 in...
Apex and Gloria J.
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 10.8 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, two cabin cruisers were reported aground at South Shoebury. At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched in a moderate south westerly breeze and a...
Tasman
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 8 p.m.
on 29th August, 1966, local residents saw a yacht in difficulties in Pembroke bay.
At 8.20 the life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in a...
Kindly Light
Boulmer, Northumberland. A port was received at 10.23 a-m- on July, 1965, that the motor fishing vessel Kindly Light of Seahouses had broken down approximately two miles eastsouth- east of Boulmer. The life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle...
Captain W. J. Oliver
Captain W. J. Oliver, M.C., who was district organising secretary for the north-east of England from 1928 until 1952, died on the 18th of March, 1960, at the age of 72.
Captain Oliver and his family had a long association...
Category: Obituaries
None (1)
Hospital run THE LOCAL DOCTOR asked Barra Island lifeboat to convey an urgent maternity case from Tangasdale to Lochboisdale, South Uist. It was 0425 on Monday, March 8. With good visibility, a fresh east-south-easterly breeze and a choppy...
A Canoe (2)
Hythe, Kent.—18th August, 1939.
It had been reported that a canoe was being carried away by the wind and tide, but the life-boat could find nothing, and it was learnt later that the canoe had come safely ashore.— Rewards,...
None
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, and Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—17th August. Four men had been cut off by the tide while fish- ing. Two got ashore but the others were drowned before the Lifeboats arrived.
—Rewards, Ferryside,...
None (5)
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—4th August.
Three bathers were in difficulties, but two were rescued from the shore and a yawl picked up the other. Lifeboatmen were put on board the yawl and applied artificial respiration, but...