LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Susan, Olivia Mary
At 5.18 p.m. on i6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a motor boat with three people on board was in need of assistance one and a half miles east north east of Foreness point. The IRB was launched at 5.22 in a fresh...
Sibiria (1)
A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
Nyon
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 7.57 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message that the motor vessel Nyon of Basle was ashore three and a half miles north- west of St. Abbs Head. At 8.15 the life-boat W. Ross...
Carmania II, of Grimsby
Stromness.
About 4 on the morning of the 14th February three messengers from different houses in Invertown brought the Honorary Secretary the news that a steamer, which was found afterwards to be the trawler Carmania II.,...
Empress, of Sunderland
On the 4th January the Seaton Carew life-boat, after making three gallant attempts, but without success, to rescue the crew of the brig Empress of Sunderland, wrecked on the Long Scar rocks, took off the crew of the Jubilee, of Guernsey,...
Erin
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were shown by the steam-tug Erin, of Wexford, at 5.30 P.M., on the 8th March. The Ethel Eveleen Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found that her engines had broken down, and that she was in a very...
Esther Ann
BLACKPOOL.—The schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, timber laden, from Wexford for Preston, struck on the Crusader Bank during a strong breeze from the N.W. and a rough sea on the 28th June. The Samuel Fletcher Life-boat put off to her...
Mary Cook
GIRVAN, N.B.—At noon on the 3rd March the smack Mary Cook, of Campbeltown, was seen to be drifting from her moorings at the north of the harbour, and was in imminent danger of being blown out to sea. The master of the smack, who was on shore...
Gulf of St. Vincent
CEMAES, HOLYHEAD AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—Intelligence having been received at these Life-boat stations on the morning of the 19th July that a steamer was stranded near the West Mouse, the crews of the Life-boats were summoned, and the boats...
Nellie
At about 3 P.M. on the 8th December signals of distress were observed from the fishing- boat Nellie, which had put to sea for the purpose of taking in their nets.
The Life-boat Theodore Price was launched and reached the...