LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hero, of London
Most admirable service was also per- formed on the morning of the 16th Oct. by the Walmer Life-boat Centurion, as will be seen by the report furnished by the Coxswain of the Life-boat as follows.
He says, " It was...
Sea Flower
On the afternoon of the 15th, the gale then blowing very heavily, accompanied by squalls of rain, a vessel was seen driftii; g towards the shore at Donna Nook, which soon afterwards struck on the Hale Sand. The alarm was given at the...
Oakdene
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.8 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks on which the Longstone light- house stands. A...
Juliana, of Riga
On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...
Mary Coad
GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...
Professo
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — The Two Sisters Life-boat was launched at 5.30 on the evening of the 2nd October, to the assistance of the brig Professo, of Tvedestrand, Norway, bound from Sundswall for Ramsey, with a cargo of timber. She was lying...
Leader
On the 8th January one of the crew of the ketch Leader, of Bideford, went mad whilst the vessel was lying at anchor in St. Tudwells roads. The master of the ketch, having locked the man in his cabin, came ashore for assistance, but the man...
Delightful
Longhope, Orkneys. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1960, a south-easterly gale was blowing and the sea was very rough at the mouth of Aith Hope. The bowman of the life- boat and a member of the crew, who jointly owned the...
None (2)
Gabvay Bay. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd October, 1961, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, to take him to Inishmaan to attend a seriously injured...
A Dinghy
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the life-boat The Chieftain was returning to her station after a routine exercise when a message was received from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in...