LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Abyssinia
On the following day the Kingsdowne Life-boat put off while it was blowing strongly from the S.W., and remained for some time alongside the ship Abyssinia, which had gone on the Goodwin Sands, but which was got off the Sands with the aid of...
Gwydyr Castle
On the night of the 20th March the harbour tug and the Life-boat Bradford were again called out to the assistance of the barque Gwydyr Castle, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the north end of the Goodwin Sands while bound from Port Pirie...
Catherine & Ellen
Again, on the 1st December, the Lifeboat went out in response to signals of distress shown from the schooner Catherine & Ellen, which had been overtaken by strong gale from the N.N.W., and which had brought up far out in the bay. The...
Auguste
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WlGHT.—The Life-boat Catherine Swift was launched at about 5.30 P.M. on the 15th February, the coxswain, while on the cliff, having observed a large barque strike on the Eastern Ledge at Atherfield and immediately swing...
Cecile
The No. 1 Life- ; boat Marie Lane was called out during foggy but smooth weather, on the 17th August, to the assistance of the cutter Cecil, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the Scroby Sands. The Life-boat remained by the vessel until she...
Berthe Marie
Shortly before noon on the 7th December the coastguard reported that a schooner, anchored about three quarters of a mile from the shore, had parted one of her cables and was driving towards the land. The crew of the Life-boat Eichard and...
Angloman (2)
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Taka-Maru
On the 3ist August, 1965, the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, rescued the crew of two of the yacht Taka-Maru of Rhyl. A full account of this service will appear in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Coastguards Honoured
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Douglas Jay, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1965-66 to the Walton-on-Naze Coastguard Rescue Company for their rescue of nine men by breeches buoy from the stranded motor...
Category: Awards
Correction
IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..
Category: Articles