LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sabrina and Pen Cw
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the harbour master reported that the yacht Sabrina had parted her moorings and was drifting on a lee shore with one man on board. The life-boat St. Albans was...
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Exmouth, Devon.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1956.
the coastguard reported that a man who could not swim was stranded on a sandbank near the River Otter.
The life-boat Maria Noble was...
Frode
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1956, the Polruan coastguard reported white flares two to three miles south-west- by-west of the coastguard station.
At 9.40 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put out....
Dolins
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of June; 1957, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the fishingfleet had returned to the harbour with the exception of the motor boat Dolins, which had a crew of two...
Margaret Herd
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.5 on the night of the 8th of April, 1958, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Margaret Herd, of Fraserburgh, was ashore at Point of Ham in the Island of Bressay, near the...
Erratum
IN the March 1955 number, the cap- tion to a photograph of the Seaham life-boat incorrectly described it as the Sunderland life-boat..
Category: Articles
Remedy
Dover, Kent.—At nine o'clock on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the police reported that the motor yacht Remedy, which had a crew of two, was in distress between the South Goodwin lightvessel and the Goodwin Sands. At 9.35 the...
H.M.S. Musketeer and Saucy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.
Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...
A Gift from Swedish Lloyd
ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New...
Category: Donations
Mina Cantiquin
On the 4th of November, 1951, the Coverack life-boat rescued the crew of seventeen of a Spanish steamer. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 284..