LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Darnet
On the evening of the llth July the ketch Darnet, of Maldon, was anchored between the Knocksand Bank and the Main when she parted from her anchor and drifted on to the sand. Later she floated off the sand, but went on to the Main near...
Bjornhang
APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 5 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore at Balcomie Bay. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.25 A.M. the motor life-boat Nellie...
Mr. Charlie Brown
Well known at Falmouth, Mr. Charlie Brown, who was an officer on the life-boat for over 38 years, has died at the age of 74. He spent 13 of them as coxswain..
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Clan Malcolm
The s.s. Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, bound from London to the Clyde, ran ashore near the Lizard in a dense fog on the 26th September. She was carrying a crew of seventy-five. A moderate to fresh S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
The S.S. Wandle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.48 in the evening of the 3rd of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Wandle, of London, was approaching the harbour and wished to land a sick man. The motor life- boat Louise...
Lt Cdr David Streatfield
Lt Cdr David Streatfield Former Aylesbury & District chairman, on 28 March..
Category: Obituaries
South Coaster
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST...
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The Bermudan Sloop Calcutta Princess
Snatched from rocks A MAYDAY CALL received from the 17' bermudan sloop Calcutta Princess was reported by Trevose Head Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 1709 on Sunday July 17, 1977. The yacht, a quarter...
Ripple
At 10.30 P.M.
on the llth January one of the local trawlers named the Ripple was seen to be in difficulties off Porthminster owing to the wind having suddenly veered to northward and carried away her mizen mast. Noticing...