LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Petit Jean Yves
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.55 on the night of the 9th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was firing flares at the south-east end of Gugh Island. At 11.10, when the life-boat Guy and Clare...
D. L. Harper
The motor tanker, D. L. Harper, of Danzig, 12.350 tons, bound laden from Aruba, West Indies, to Hamburg, with five passen- gers and thirty-eight crew, struck the Crane Rocks, about half a mile north of Lizard Head, on the 20th June.
Chasseur 5, a Chaser of the French Naval Forces
DECEMBER 21ST. - SWANAGE, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 10.27 in the morning the Swanage coastguard telephoned that the naval officer in charge at Poole wished the Swanage life-boat to go to the help of an escort vessel which had capsized three...
Brenjean
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.30 on the night of the 26th of Mav, 1953. a man rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Brenjean, of Yar- mouth, had gone aground on the south side of the entrance to Castlebay har- bour. At...
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
Edith
MOELPRE, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Edith, of Newry, bound from Liverpool for Drogheda, co. Louth, with coal, was lying in the outer roads while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, on the 25th...
Kelpie
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...
Chief Organising Secretary
MR. JOHN TERRY, the district organ- ising secretary for London, has been appointed chief organising secretary of the Institution and personal assis- tant to the secretary, a new post which replaces the post of...
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The Faith Star, Progress, Success, Galilee, Provider A, Lead Us,Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 17th ofDecember, 1952, the coastguard reported that bad weather had made conditions danger- ous on the outer harbour bar. As fishing boats were still at sea, the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 28th of March, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, which had a crew of five, had run ashore on the eastern side of Barra Island....