LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rescue In a Snow-Storm
Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four...
Category: Services
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
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Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were trapped by the tide...
18-Year-Old Boys In IRB Rescue
A FIRST-CLASS IRB rescue, carried out in near extreme conditions for an IRB, has earned Mr. Idris Evans, aged 23, the helmsman, and crew members Mr.
Trevor Evans and Mr. Peter Evans, both aged 18 of the New Quay,...
Category: Services
Roycroft
ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, information was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...
R. H. Tucker of Winconsin U.S
On the 7th September, the ship R. H.
Tucker, of Winconsin, U.S., struck on the Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, and the following day was totally destroyed by fire. The Cahore life-boat put off early in the morning,...
Don, of Jersey
On the 10th November the Joseph Anstice, the Life- boat of this station, in answer to signals of distress from the schooner Don, of Jersey, put off to her assistance. A very heavy gale was blowing from the north, and darkness coming on soon...
Nellie Moody, of Nova Scotia
.—On the : evening of the 30th January, at about 8 P.M., a large vessel was observed to have 1 struck on the Parthingwy Rocks, near Moelfre. The Lady Vivian Life-boat, which had been sent to that station only a few weeks previously, was...
Constanze
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE AND HARWICH.
—The Honourable Artillery Company Lifeboat, stationed at Walton, was summoned by a telegram from the Sunk Light-ship, on the 4th December, stating that signals of distress were seen S.W. of...
Bertha
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The Life-boat Albert Edward put off at about 5.30 P.M. on the 6th January, in reply to signals of distress from the Swin Middle Lightship. The wind was blowing a gale from the E., and the sea was very heavy. On reaching the...