LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Barque Duc d' Aumale
On the 17th July, during a moderate N.N.W. gale and rough sea, information was received that a barque was ashore on the Kentish Knock Sands, with a flag signal flying, which could not be distinguished on account of the rain. The No. 2 Life-...
A New Life-Boat Book
A NEW book on the Life-boat Service is to appear in the autumn. It will be by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E.
Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Vice-President of the Institution, and will have a foreword by H.R.H....
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Eleno
The Lizard, Cadgwith and Penlee, Cornwall, and Plymouth, Devonshire.— On the 5th March the Italian steamer Eleno sent out a wireless message that her engines had broken down, that she was drifting ashore, and wanted...
Anastassios Pateras (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...
Pintail
Portrusb, Co. Antrim.—At 6.47 in the morning of the 26th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress on Rathlin Island, and the life-boat T.B.B.H. was launched at 7.5. A fresh west-south-west gale was blowing,...
The Russian S.S. Smolensk
ANKLE SET ON PASSAGE Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.18 a.m.
on i9th August, 1965, a message from a doctor was received saying that a man on board the Russian S.S. Smolensk of Riga had broken a leg and required a...
Grietje
THREE LIFE-BOATS OUT TO DUTCH VESSEL Port Erin, Port St. Mary, and Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.15 on the morning of the 5th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Port St. Mary life-boat station that a vessel...
Winifred and Shawford (1)
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
A Gannet Aircraft
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
Silver Gain
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the 30th of June, 1958, the life-boat crew and helpers had assembled for the usual Monday evening clean-up of the life- boat and gear. The night was foggy with little wind. At 9.45 shouting was heard coming...