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Dolphin, Alex S. Sorbas

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Falmouth, Cornwall - At 5.3 p.m. on 7th July, 1967, it was learnt that the sailing dinghy Dolphin was missing on passage from Port Navas to Restronquet.

The life-boat Constance and Crawford Conybeare, which had launched...

Coxswain Peter Bisson of St.Peter Port

Date: Spring 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 504

Coxswain Peter Bisson of St Peter Port joined the lifeboat crew in 1980 and became second coxswain in 1984 before being appointed coxswain in 1986. Together with his fellow crew members he was awarded a bronze medal in 1981 for the rescue of... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Thais (1)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...

Lighthouse Telegraphs and Fog-Signals

Date: August 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 97

THE Schiller disaster served to turn public attention to the question of Fog-signals and Alarms; and some interest was felt in the evidence taken before the BOARD or TRADE Court of Inquiry, apart from that naturally induced by the details of...

Category: Articles

An Aeroplane

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Exmouth, Devon.—22nd March, 1939.

An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were saved by a small boat from the shore.—Rewards, £2615s.

(See "Shoreboat Services,"...

A Small Outboard-Powered Boat

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Two saved by brothers andjifeboat The quick thinking of two young men who were about to take a swim in the Teign estuary undoubtedly saved the life of at least one of two people who were thrown into the water when their small outboardpowered...

Lifeboat Services

Date: Autumn 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 518

Whitby Scarborough East Division TWO LIFEBOATS STAND BY IN SEVERE CONDITIONS Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety...

Category: Services

Letters

Date: Autumn 1979

Volume: 46

Issue: 470

Understatement of great magnitude We are grateful to L. J. Robertson who, in his letter in the autumn journal, puts so succinctly our own feelings towards the manner of the rescue reports: '. . . understatement of great magnitude . . ....

Category: Correspondence

Percy Garon MC GM : Honorary Secretary of Southend-On-Sea Lifeboat Station from 1952-1975

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .

they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...

Category: Articles

Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th November 1879

Date: February 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 115

NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...

Category: Services