LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachts
JULY 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 1.30 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched to attend the Curracloe Regatta.
The sea was rough, with a strong southsouth- westerly wind blowing...
Fishing Boats (5)
On the 10th May the fishing-boats were again in much danger, in consequence of having been overtaken by stormy weather.
The Life-boat put off to help them, and remained by them until they had entered the harbour. One boat,...
A Dinghy from an Aeroplane
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.35 A.M. information was received from the R.A.F. at Coltishall that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.N.W. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at...
Awards to Honorary Workers
more than 10 years as Honorary Treasurer of the Bolton Branch, a Framed Photograph.
The following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries on completion To J. WIGNALL HODSON, Esq., upon his retirement after 10 years as...
Category: Awards
Frederike Carolina
RAMSGATE.—At midnight, on the 12th of February, during a moderate S.E. wind and thick weather, signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Bradford Life-boat put off in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, proceeded to the North Sand...
Falcon
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The shrimpboat Falcon, while homeward bound in a strong N.E. breeze on the 9th March, stranded on the outer bank to the south of the harbour. On information reaching Gorleston, the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was promptly...
Vellum for Buckie Coxswain.
Coxswain Francis Mair, of Buckie, Banffshire, has been awarded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for rescuing the crew of an R.A.F. launch.
He took the life-boat right over the rocks on which the launch lay,...
Category: Articles
Yacht Veruna
In mode- rate but hazy weather in the afternoon of the 5th March the steam yacht Varuna, of New York, stranded on the edge of the Gunfleet Sands. At 2.40 P.M.
the haze lifted, and the Coastguard on watch observed the vessel...
Devon Brook
AUGUST 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 2.14 in the afternoon the Blyth coastguard reported that the Devon Brook was ashore on the rocks a short distance from the east pier in a very bad position. She was bound from...
Life-Boatman Overboard
A Rescue at Portrush.
A VIOLENT westerly gale, with gusts at 70 miles an hour, swept across the British Isles on 19th October, 1935, with loss of life and great damage to property ashore and afloat. Twelve life-boats were...
Category: Services