LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bonne Adele
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The schooner Bonne Adele, of Isigny, France, bound to that port from Llanelly, with coal, parted her cables and drove ashore about a quarter of a mile west of Hayle Bar during a strong N. gale and heavy sea, at about 3 P.M....
Realf (4)
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
Crew Rescued After Vessel Strikes Life-Boat
AT 2.1 on the afternoon of 18th Novem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Blyth life-boat station, Captain H.
Rowe, was informed by the coastguard that a small coaster was in difficulties off Blyth Fairway buoy. Two...
Category: Services
Jenny
Beam trawler ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1977, at 2132, the 23-ton beam trawler Jenny reported on Channel 16 VHP that she was in difficulty and unable to manoeuvre in heavy weather some eight miles south south east of Nab...
A Steamer (1)
Boulmer, Northumberland.—13th September.
The life-boat searched unsuccessfully for a steamer which was sounding her siren continuously in a fog.—Rewards, £13 4s..
The Girvan Pleasure Motor Boat Carrick Lass
Girvan, Ayrshire.—On the evening of the 24th June news was received that the Girvan pleasure motor boat Carrick Lass had run ashore about half a mile .
north of Girvan harbour in a thick mist. The sea was smooth and there...
A German Yacht
Any lifeboat launch can be risky, and a carriage launch from an exposed beach is particularly so. Overcoming a problem and completing a service is part of the tradition of the lifeboat service - well illustrated by an incident at Dungeness...
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Mr. Barrie Bennett's, M.B.E.
MR. BARRIE BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Penlee Station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List. He became honorary secretary in 1913, was awarded the Institution's binoculars in...
Category: Awards
None (2)
Trapped in cave TWO BOYS TRAPPED in a cave on the north side of Brean Down were reported to the honorary secretary of Weston-super-Mare ILB station at 1625 on Sunday November 12, 1978, by Barry Coastguard. Maroons were fired at 1632 and the...