LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sir Frederick Moneypenny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., of Belfast.

BY the death on 4th October, at the age of seventy-three, of Sir Frederick Money- penny, Bt., C.V.O., C.B.E., City Cham- berlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, parts of wireless messages were picked up at the life-boat station.

They came from tugs which appeared to be in difficulties with a vessel in tow...

SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...

OC T . 1 9 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 5.50 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to go out to the Greek steamer Panachrandos A strong N.N.E.

wind was blowing, with a...

On the morning of the llth of January the wind suddenly shifted to the N., and rapidly increased in violence until at noon it blew a fresh gale from the N.E., with a very high sea. At the time there was a small schooner, the Mary Jane, of...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT DONAGHADEE NOVEMBER 21ST. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 6.20 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Donaghadee life-boat station that a steamer was ashore at Ballymacormick Point in Belfast Lough. A gale was...

The brig Traen, of Christiania, was wrecked during a moderate north- easterly gale and thick weather, on the 2nd March, on the Goswick Sands.

About 7.30 A.M. the coastguard reported by telephone that a vessel was ashore.<...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to March 31st, 1953 - 78,157 Barge Sunk in the Thames Estuary Silver Medal Service by...