LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Shrimping Boats, the Edith and Alice and Don't Know
LOWESTOFT.—On the morning of the 19th July, during a strong N.E. wind, a very heavy sea, and thick weather wi th rain, the No. 2 Life-boat Stock Exchange was launched, , having brought up on Corton Mate about four and a half miles N. of...
U.S.A. Liberty Ship James Eagan Layne
MARCH 21ST. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.3 in the afternoon a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a vessel was sinking five miles north-east of Eddystone, as the result of enemy action.
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
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Foreign Decorations for British Life-Boatmen
Longhope IN Kirkwall Town Hall, in the Orkneys, on 22nd July, with the Provost in the chair, Captain J. D. Daintree, C.B.E., R.N. (Inspector-General of Coast Guard), presented to Second Coxswain W.
Mowat and the Crew of the...
Category: Awards
The Armed Patrol Yacht Boyne Water
FEBRUARY 29TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 2.45 P.M. the armed patrol yacht Boyne Water, which was anchored in St. Tudwalls Roads, signalled for a doctor, and Dr. Lloyd Hughes, of Abersoch, asked the life-boat to take...
Lady Isle
BROKEN FUEL PUMP At 3.57 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Lady Isle of Troon had broken her fuel pump seven miles west of Sanda Island. At 4.15 the lifeboat City of Glasgow II...
French Medals for Swanage
On the 3ist, December, 1943, the Swanage life-boat rescued three lives from the French nayal launch "Chasseur 5", which had capsized in a heavy sea when escorting a submarine. The men were clinging to her keel. On July...
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A Yacht (1)
Yacht ablaze AT 2225 ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday September 8, 1984, Clyde coastguard reported a yacht aground, north of Hunterston power station. Three minutes later the relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, William Yeo, ontemporary...
Annie Christian
WATCHET, SOMERSETSHIRE. — In a strong N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 16th January, the ketch Annie Christian, of Liverpool, got into difficulties off Watchet while bound from Ely with a cargo of coal. The vessel had been at anchor,...
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First aid for a doctor Kinghorn in Fife's Atlantic 75 Elizabeth Ann was launched just after 5pm on 20 July 2005 to the help of a doctor who had lost her footing while rock climbing at Hawkcraig Point, Aberdour, and fallen 15m onto a...