LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Daisy (1)
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1938 issue A New Medal for Gallantry SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals,...
Category: Articles
Siglinde
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 5.0 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a visitor reported to the police that a barge seemed to be in difficulties off Holland Haven. The police informed the coastguard at Clacton, but as the Clacton...
None (7)
BOY RESCUED AFTER CLIFF FALL New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs between Llangranog and Yyns Lochtyn, and that...
Sand Star
ARM SEVERED Swanage, Dorset. At 8.45 p.m. on 9th June, 1965, while the assistant honorary secretary, coxswain and other members of the life-boat crew were preparing for the local Ladies Guild fair to be held on the roth June, the...
Disaster at Fraserburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1953 - 78,220 Disaster at Fraserburgh MONDAY the 9th of February, 1953, was a fine sunny day...
Category: Services
Glen Cora
At 5.15 P.M. on the 5th December a pilot boat with three men on board put out in response to what was thought to be a signal for a pilot. The weather was very thick, with a moderate easterly breeze. The three men found a yacht, the Glen Cora...
A Ship
BALLYW ALTER, Go. DOWN.—On the 11tb.
March, at midnight, signals of distress were shown from a ship ashore on the Long Bock opposite Ballywalter, and in response thereto the Life-boat Admiral Henry Meynett was promptly...
Dayspring
FRASERBURGH.—On the 15th August about two hundred of the fishing-boats put to sea, but as weather was threatening the remaining six hundred boats did not venture out. Towards night the wind increased until it attained the force of a gale,...
Fjordheim
The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey and the Insti- tution's steam-tug were called out for service at 8 P.M. on the 6th March. A telephone message stated that signals of distress had been reported N.N.E.
from Pentire, and...