LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness
Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 3rd February last, at the age of sixty-five.
He had retired only five months before on account of ill health. Appointed Coxswain in 1915, he...
Category: Obituaries
Pilot Me
.—On the morning of the 30th October the coxswain was told that the local fishing boat Pilot Me was at sea. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with snow showers, and heavy seas were breaking over the pier exten- sions, and right out to the...
Bryony
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.55 A.M.
on the 25th August, 1938, the harbourmaster reported rockets near Black Rock Buoy in the Solent. The night was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat S.G.E. put out at 3.17 A.M.,...
Island Rover
Valenria, Go. Kerry.--At 8.40 on the morning of the 29th of April, 1954, a message was received from Portmagee that the fishing boat Island Rover, of Tralee, was overdue with a crew of four. At nine o'clock the life-boat A.E.D. put out....
Rosemary
Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.12 p.m. on 2nd May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was firing red flares one mile north of the life-boat station. At 7.45 the life-boat James and Catherine Macfarlane was...
A Rubber mattress
Brighton, Sussex. At 4.7 p.m. on 8th July, 1965, the life-guard for the east section of the beach told the beach superintendent's office that a boy on a rubber mattress was drifting seawards off Black Rock swimming pool and signalling...
Orient
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.— A rocket was fired from a vessel near Rhoscolyn Landmark early on the morning of the 7th March. The weather was foggy, and a heavy sea was running, the wind being S.W. The Thomas lAngham Life-boat proceeded to her...
J. W. T.
KESSINGLAND, SUFFOLK. — Signals of distress were observed at 7.45 P.M. on the 24th March from the schooner J. W. T., of Truro, bound from Euncorn to Newcastle with a cargo of rock salt. The St. Michael's Paddington Life-boat at once...
Pilot Me II
Whltby, Yorkshire.-—At noon on the 26th of January, 1952, the second coxswain reported that the local motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II had wire- lessed that she was making for the harbour. A strong northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
Sydney Dacres
On the 16th February, a boat containing part of the crew of the ship Sydney Dacres, from San Francisco to Liverpool, which had been abandoned at sea, arrived at Knightstown, in the island of Valentia, Co. Kerry. Fourteen of the crew were...