LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harriet and Venus
At about 7.35 P.M. on the 28th No- vember, signals from the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships were seen, and the Life-boat and steam-tug proceeded through the Cudd Channel to the North Sand Head. They saw a flare from a vessel on the sand,...
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MAY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 10.55 at night the naval base reported through the coastguard that an American soldier and a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service had been cut off by the tide on Ynys Meibion rocks...
Two Survivors Dragged from Fishing Vessel
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services
Styvel
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 11.48 on the night of the 17th of November, 1955, a message was received from the Valentia radio station that the trawler Styvel, of Concarneau. France, which had a crew of ten, had wirelessed that she had broken down...
Alpha (1)
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell rescued the crew of eight of the ketch Alpha, of Stranraer, and rescued six of them a second time after they had returned to the ketch. Rewards, the bronze...
Clifford James
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Category: Advertisement
Sophia and Bonny Loch Ryan
GIRVAN.— On the 1st February a very heavy sea was running outside the bar, and as the gale was freshening, the crew of the Life-boat were summoned, two of the fishing-boats, the Sophia and the Bonny Loch Ryan, not having returned from the...
Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Gallilee, Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 29th April, 1938, the localfishing fleet put to sea. At 11 A.M. the Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Gallilee and Provider were off the Rock Buoy, waiting for the tide to rise. The...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of February, 1953, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief keepers and supplies to the Skelligs Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' steamer was on duty elsewhere. At...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.12 early on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that two bathers were marooned on a sand- bank at Point Clear. The life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at...