LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harry Martin
At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...
Lifeboat Services
Trapped_men rescued from pier supports D class thrown against pier supports and holed during night service Sometimes the need to save a life over-rides all other considerations...
When Eastbourne lifeboat station heard that...
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Pride of Erin
Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard passed on by telephone a message that the motor fishing vessel Pride of Erin, of Belfast, was ashore in West Loch Tarbert.
She was...
Sidelights on Stations . . .
A FEBRUARY gale swept the Lytham St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt from her moorings and eight of her crew had to set off in pursuit in the boarding boat. After a chase for a mile and a half towards Freckleton Marshes they were...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
HOLY ISLAND.—On the 29th April, 1867, j the Grace Darling life-boat went off and assisted safely into harbour two fishing- smacks, which were observed in distress during very stormy weather. Had it not! been for the services of the life-boat...
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The S.S. Pinna
At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate assist- ance. The vessel was drifting before...
Boconnoc
BUDE, CORNWALL.—On the 2nd May the smack Boconnoc, of Padstow, in attempting to proceed to sea, the wind being very light and there being a considerable ground sea, drifted to the north side of the entrance to the harbour. The master, seeing...
Helen Mary
Exmouth, Devonshire.—At about 12.20 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small vessel off Dawlish appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting towards the land. A west gale was blowing, with a heavy swell and squalls...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
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J. M. J.
APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON.—Signals of distress having been observed, the Lifeboat Jane Hannah MacDonald was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 20th January in a moderate S.W. wind, a heavy sea, and thick weather. The schooner J. M. J., of Bideford,...