LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.S. Jeanie Deans and The Barges Ida, of Harwich and Xylonite, of Ipswich
DECEMBER 17TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 in the morning a request was received from the naval control for the life-boat to go to the Maplin Sands where a vessel had been driven ashore on the Black tail Spit. A strong southerly...
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 8.20 on the morning of the 29th of November, 1959, a watchman on board the navigation barge moored off Lytham told the honorary secretary that a pas- sing vessel had reported that the pilot cutter St....
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.12 on the evening of the 22nd of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a fishing vessel appeared to be in diffi- culties three miles north-west of Hilbre Island. He went to the boathouse and through a...
Jeannie Slessor
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At four o'clock in the afternoon on the 23rd of February, 1950, information was re- ceived from St. Combs and the coast- guard that a small fishing boat was in distress. At 4.13 the life-boat John and Charles...
Jenny
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 2 p.m. on 3ist August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Rillage point. The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 2.10. The tide was flooding. The life...
Bill Gough.
Bill Gough. Cowbridge branch press officer since 1986. Mr Gough joined the committee in 1977 and organised house-tohouse collections. He was awarded a statuette in 1992.
Category: Obituaries
Vivien Jean
Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.29 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser was firing red flares a mile and a half east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. There was a moderate...
Rosaline Gorgy
DOS AMIGOS TOWED At 10.15 P-m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the French trawler Rosaline Gorgy had found the fishing boat Dos Amigos of Newlyn, previously reported missing on passage from Fishguard...