LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Launches
Lifeboat launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 20 and October 7.
Angle, Pembrokeshire September 5 and 22.
Anstruther, Fife September...
Category: Services
The S.S. Lynx
MOETE BAY, NQBTH DEVON;—The s.s.
Lynx, of Cardiff, bound from that port to Portreath, with coal, sprang a leak when off Morthoe Point, on the 6th March, and with the view of saving the lives of the crew, the master ran her...
Malvoisin
At 3.15 A.M., on the 15th January a message was received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel reporting a ship ashore on the sands.
A whole S.E. gale was blowing, the sea was very heavy, and the weather bitterly cold. Without...
Puffin
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
Julia
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...
Lifeboat launches on service during the months December 1972, January and February, 1973
Appledore, North Devon December 5.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow January 19 and February 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 14, 17 and 21.
Ballycotton, Co. Cork December 4, 5, January 6 and...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Crossword—4
LIFE-BOAT CROSSWORD—4 0 The winners of the April crossword were: 1st prize (£1), Dr. J. J. Drever, Brunton Place, Edinburgh, 2nd prize (£1), Mr. R. W. McLaren, Grange Park, Woodland Avenue, Cramleigh, Surrey; 3rd prize (£1),...
Category: Articles
The Fishing Factory Ship Cornelius Vrolijk
Saved 21 GALWAY BAY LIFEBOAT, the 48ft 6in Solent R. Hope Roberts slipped her moorings at 0715 on Sunday, November 9, 1986, after the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Shannon had alerted the station honorary secretary to the plight of...
Augusta
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—On the 19th February, during a storm of unusual violence from the N.E., the schooner Augusta, belonging to Sunderland, and bound from that port to Little Jersey, was wrecked on some rocks to the leeward of this harbour.<...
Book Reviews
Mr. Michael Elder has succeeded admirably in his task of presenting anew a number of the great rescues carried out by men of the life-boat service. These are contained in For Those in Peril (John Murray, 18s.).
Most of the...
Category: Articles