LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George and Valentine and Noach I.
RAMSGATE.—On the 12th November, signals were shown by vessels ashore in Pegwell Bay. The Life-boat which had been temporarily placed on this station in lien of the Bradford, which had been rendered unfit for further service by collision on...
Velocity, Frier and Bonne Mere
SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (1)
Launches 18. Lives Rescued 7.
FEB. 11TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. At 9.55 P.M. a telephone message was received that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the...
Category: Services
Cascade
SIXTEEN HOUR SERVICE TO DUTCH VESSEL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 2.53 a.m. on Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the Lochmaddy police reported to the Stornoway coastguard that there was a vessel ashore at Sponish Point, Lochmaddy. The...
Services of Life-Boats
PORTMADOC.—On the morning of the 9th of December, 1854, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W. at the time, two large threemasted vessels were observed from Portmadoc to be on shore on the St. Patrick's Causeway, a dangerous shoal of several...
Category: Services
The Admiralty Drifter Eminent
A DEPLOBABIE accident, which resulted j in the loss of two lives, occurred at; Fraserburgh, oa the 28th April. The j Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left: Buryhead the previous night, bound for j Fraserburgh to be " demobilised,"...
Contents
/ /•Yfi + zifi'f-o Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth Ill Lifeboat Services.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 113 Postscript. . .: extracts from an article by Captain Basil Hall, an inspector XLV of lifeboats at the turn of the century 119...
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Tom Pepper
Dover, Kent. At 9.10 on the night of the 26th of May, 1958, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was drifting without lights a mile and a half south of the coastguard station. At 9.30 the life- boat...
Gazelle (1)
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Fishing Cobles
Holy Island, Northumberland.—On the 21st January the North Sunderland honorary secretary asked, through the coastguard, for the motor life-boat Milburn to go to the help of twelve North Sunderland motor fishing cobles which had been caught...