LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Screw Flat Victoria
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...
Silver Medal Service at Torbay
EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
Category: Services
Sirocco
Salcombe, South Devon. At 8.50 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, it was learnt that the lighthouse keeper at Start Point had reported a small yacht was burning flares at Peartree Point. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange left her moorings at 8.59 in...
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FEBRUARY 3RD . - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At about 2.30 P.M. information was received from a resident at Bresay Island that two of his sons had gone across to Noss Island about twelve days before to look after sheep. On account...
The Passenger Vessel Purbeck Gem
Two lifeboats help in evacuation of 114 from stranded passenger vesselBoth of Poole's lifeboats were called on to help with the evacuation of 114 passengers from a passenger vessel which ran aground in darkness and thick fog on the night...
Cullercoats Disaster Fund
THE fund which the Mayor of Tyne- mouth opened to supplement the pensions paid by the Institution to the dependent relatives of the men who lost their lives when the Cullercoats motor life-boat capsized on exercise on 22nd April, 1939, was...
Category: Articles
Scarthoe
Tynemonth, Northumberland - At 8.45 p.m. on 18th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Scarthoe had grounded in the Tyne estuary in thick fog. Her crew were preparing to abandon ship. The...
Rescue from Trawler Aground Near Eilmore
About 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 19th of December, 1957, the lights of a vessel passing between the two Saltee islands off the Wexford coast were seen from Kilmore Quay.
It was a wild night, and as the coast is a...
Category: Services
The Ramsey Island Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
Madam Moon
Exmouth, Devon. At 7.55 on the even- ing of the 31 st of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen south of Orcombe Point. At 8.20 the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan put...