LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saved from Diphtheria
Three children were dangerously ill with diphtheria on an island off the west coast of Ireland. The proper drugs were not to be got on the island and the children would have been dead in a few hours. The Arranmore life-boat took the doctor...
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Sir Colin Campell
On the 4th October the brig Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby, in making Rye Harbour, grounded on the bar. The Rye life-boat landed the master and crew, and on the following tide, the weather having mo- derated, they again proceeded to the brig,...
Ann, of Inverness
The schooner Ann, of Inverness, was approaching the Har- bour of Arbroath, on the evening of the 24th August, it then being an hour past high-water, and the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., when she struck on the rocks, about 400...
Hannah
LOWEBTOEF,— The coxswain of the Samuel PlimwU Life-boat was called at 6 A.sr. on the llth October as a schooner was observed driving over Corton Sands, the sea breaking over her. The crew were at once summoned, and the Life-boat proceeded to...
Mitford
Signals of distress were shown by the barque Mitford, of and for Newcastle, from Goole in ballast, during a strong N.E, gale and a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat Manchester Unity was launched at 10.30 P.M., but the vessel...
Citrine
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Emlyn
At about 10 P.M. on the 12th November Coxswain Howells observed the steamer Emlyn, of • Cardiff, burning flares for assistance, and he at once assembled the crew of the Motor Life-boat Charterhouse. The boat proceeded to the vessel, which...
Annual Press Award
In February, 1964, it was decided to award a certificate annually to the writer of what is in the Institution's opinion the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat.
The Institution carefully studied...
Category: Awards
Garland
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 2.3 a.m. on 5th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that the ketch Garland Stone was aground on the causeway north of Barmouth and was leaking badly. The life-boat The Chieftain was launched at 2.19. It was...
A Dinghy (1)
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.47 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a skin diver was in difficulties off the Lizard outer rocks and was drifting away from his dinghy.
The...