LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and Enfilade
Newhaven, Sussex.—On the 6th of May, 1955, the motor boats William III, Moonbeam, Endeavour and En- filade put out from Dover to take a salvage party to the S.S. Germania, of Piraeus, which had run ashore to the east of Beachy Head on the...
Selina Jane
At 9.30 P.M.
on the 19th March, it was reported by telephone that a vessel had grounded on the Doom Bar, whilst trying to make the harbour. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat, Arab, were at once summoned and the boat launched....
Membership News
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Category: Articles
A Small Boat
On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.
breeze was blowing, and a...
Aeron Belle
At 9.20 A.M. the same day the Life- boat was again launched to a vessel in •distress off the Head, the wind having changed to N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale. In her first attempt to get out of harbour the Life-boat was un- successful...
Mr. William Adams, Late Coxswain, North Deal
William Adams, Coxswain of the North Deal Life-boat, died on 23rd October last, in his seventy-sixth year. Probably no Life-boat Coxswain was better known to the public, and few have had a more dis- tinguished career. Born on 5th April, 1851...
Category: Obituaries
The Portrush Fishing Boat No. 95
FEBRUARY 1ST. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Just before mid-day the coastguard reported a fishing boat three miles northnorth- east of Ramore Head, lying broadside on to the seas and apparently in...
Hawkinge
ANOTHER YACHT IN PERIL Appledore, Devon.—At 8.50 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the yacht Hawk, of Southampton, which was moored in the pool, made distress signals. A strong west-north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Young Helen
DUNBAR, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—During a westerly gale and moderate sea on the afternoon of the 18th March, the smack Young Helen, of Buckhaven, struck on the " Wildfire rock," bet ween North Berwick and Dunbar. On the information being...
Doctor's island call-out
CLIFDEN | 23 DECEMBER
An elderly resident of Inishturk Island was able to spend Christmas at home, after volunteer crew from Clifden Lifeboat Station sped the local doctor to his bedside in an...
Category: Articles