LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Florence
Arbroath, Angus.—At about 5.20 P.M.
on the 3rd October, 1938, it was noticed that the S.S. Florence, of Liverpool, which had anchored earlier in the afternoon off the harbour entrance, was in difficulties. She was a vessel...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To BENJAMIN MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 7 years as Second Coxswain and 3 years as Coxswain of the North Berwick Life-boat, a Pension.
To JOHN MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving 11 1/2 years as Second...
Category: Awards
A Yacht (1)
29th October.
A yacht was reported to be in distress, but it was found to be a large floating tree trunk.—Rewards, £8 11*. 3d..
Ex-Coxswain Allchorn
The death has occurred of ex-Coxswain T.
Allchorn, of Eastbourne, who served as boat's officer for 11 years..
Category: Obituaries
World Concord (1)
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Three Brothers
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 3rd of May, 1954, the auxiliary ketch Three Brothers, of Rye, broke from her moorings in the harbour. A whole gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...
Fishing Boats (2)
FISHING BOATS ADRIFT Valentia, Co. Kerry.—During a north- west gale with a rough sea on the 23rd of April, 1947, several fishing boats broke adrift. One drifted towards the mainland and was in danger of being wrecked. The motor life-boat...
St Michael
On the 25th July, during a strong S.S.W. gale, the French brig, St. Michel, ran on the Holm Sand, and the sea at once broke heavily over her. Being seen from Lowestoft, the life-boat at that place was quickly launched, and taking off the...
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
The Sorrento Screw Steamship
" On the morning of the 17th December, we were summoned by the firing of minute guns and other signals of distress from some vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and at 3 A.M. we launched from Walmer and Kingsdowne simultaneously in the Cen-...