LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Was Launched
EARLY in 1972 the Committee of Management of the RNLI decided to try to raise an extra £50,000 net in Cornwall to complete the total bill for the new Sennen and Falmouth boats.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, RD, RNR, Staff...
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The Cooperative Bank
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The Austrian Barque Junak
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 28th May, about 1 A.M., the Castletown Life-boat Commercial Traveller, No. 2, was launched and proceeded to the Austrian barque Junak, of Spalato, which vessel had driven ashore in Castletown Bay, whilst it...
The S.S. Warren Grove (1)
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...
Quadruple launch to stuck yacht
19 June: When this eye-catching yacht ran aground with one person aboard, Aldeburgh’s D class lifeboat Christine and Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooper had a job to do. It was just after midnight. The yacht was...
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Lucky Hit
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At about 9.15 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, the coastguard reported a smack aground on the Inner Newcombe Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross was away within five minutes. A moderate N.E. by E...
The S.S. Durward
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.58 on the morning of the 17th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Durward, of Grangemouth, which had a crew of eleven, was leaking and had a list on the south side of Robin...
Ann
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3()th of September, 1956, the coastguard reported that the yacht Ann, of Rhyl, was in difficulties with engine trouble one mile and a half north of Rhyl pier. At 12.50 the life-boat...
The 52Ft Barnett Relief Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse While at Ramsey During a Passage from Holyhead to Arranmore Launched on the Morning of Janu
The 52ft Barnett relief lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, while at Ramsey during a passage from Holyhead to Arranmore, launched on the morning of January 23 to take over from HMS Soberton the tow of Dutch, a converted ship's... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Tresfond
At about 8 P.M. on the 9th December the s.s.
Tresfond, of Stavanger, bound from Christiania to South Shields, ran ashore about half a mile north of the boathouse, duringfoggyweather. Shortly afterwards a stiff N.E. wind got...