LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laura
About 1 A.M.
oil the 9th September, a telephone message was received from the Shipwash Light-vessel, stating that the brigantine Laura, of Whitstable, had been in collision with the Light-vessel, and was then drifting...
Puffin
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
Eagle
Shortly be- fore midnight on the 18th-19th March flares were observed about three miles to the north of the Winterton station, and the crew of the No. 2 Life-boat were promptly mustered. There was a strong S. by E. breeze with a heavy ground...
Boat Abercora
On the 2nd October, during a strong S.W. gale, it was reported that a steamboat—the Dulce of Alercorn—was driving down towards the pier. The Deputy Pier- Master was informed, and it was deemed advisable to assemble the crew of the Life-boat...
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Rissa
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 early on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man and two women had landed at Filey in a dinghy. The man had reported that they had come from the yacht Rissa, which was on fire off...
Irish Government Grant
The Minister for Transport and Power in the Irish Republic, Mr. Brian Lenihan, has decided to make a payment to the Institution of an annual grant of £10,000 towards the cost of operating the life-boat services in the Irish Republic. In...
Category: Donations
Pindos
The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...
Govenor Maclean, of London
On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and launched, and took...
A Yacht (1)
Worthing, Sussex. At i.io p.m. on 2gth May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized three miles east of the station.
At 1.15 the inshore rescue boat launched in a strong...