LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bayadere, of Rouen
About nine P.M. on the 1st December, the barque Bayadere, of Rouen, parted from her anchors, and struck on the rocks near the lighthouse, at Holyhead.
It was blowing at the time a most terrific gale from the N. The Princess...
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
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A Fine Service By the New Thurso Life-Boat
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
Category: Services
Gunhild
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At about 5.30 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, the No. 1 man at the Gyleen coast lifesaving station telephoned that a large steamer was near a very dangerous shoal of rocks and appeared to be trying to get clear. A...
Ballyclare
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the evening of the 30th of May, 1956, the life-boat motor mechanic heard on his private radio that the coaster Bally- clare was ashore on Patterson's Rock.
Although no confirmation...
Dalmaris
At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February a message was received by telephone stat- j ing that a vessel was in distress off I Buddonness Lighthouse. A strong gale was blowing at the time with a heavy j sea. The motor Life-boat Maria was at...
The Lizard Life-Boat Station
WE feel sure that the accompanying illustration will prove of interest to our readers. It is a photograph taken on the occasion of the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York to the Lizard Life-boat, which was...
Category: Articles
Happy Days
Margate, Kent.—At 8.6 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, information was received from S.S. Holdernene, through North Foreland Radio and the coastguard, that a motor launch was in need of help near the Elbow...
Services of Life-Boats
Cullercoats, Northumberland. -— On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from...
Category: Services
Squib II
At 3.40 P.M.
on the 19th May a telephone message was received at the pierhead from Canvey "Island that the small yacht Squib II, of Westcliff, had capsized about half a mile from the shore. Her crew of two were...