LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Reliance
CULLERCOATS.—On the 20th November the Reliance fishing-coble, which had gone out at 4 A.M. for the purpose either of piloting or fishing, was returning to the harbour at about 9.30, by which time the sea had much increased, and it was...
Skjold
BEMBRIDGE, I.W.—At about 7 P.M. on the 14th October the City of Worcester Life-boat put off to the assistance of the Norwegian brigantine Skjold, which had lost her masts and was drifting during a W. gale. A steam-tug had arrived at the...
Galway Medals. Presented By President Cosgrave
Presented by President Cosgrave.
THE awards made by the Institution for the gallant efforts to discover the survivors of the Welsh trawler Cardigan Castle, which struck the rocks and sank in Clifden Bay, Connemara, on the...
Category: Medals
Fanny Grosfield
At about 11 A.M. on the 9th April, during a strong N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, the schooner Fanny Grosfield of Bai'row- in-Furness was seen drifting helplessly with her canvas all blown away, and a little later, when the vessel was...
Luna
On the 3rd June an alarm was given that there was a vessel ashore on Whitley Sands. At 4.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the vessel through a rough sea, the wind blowing a moderate breeze from N.E., and rescued her crew of...
Delila (1)
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
Monte Gurugu (1)
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
French Medals for Cromer
IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...
Category: Medals
Lionesse
Selsey, Sussex. At 5.27 on the morn- ing of the 3rd of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had fired three flares two hundred yards south of the Owers lightvessel. The life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
Lenie (1)
TOWED OFF ROCKS Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.
At 5.5 a.m. on i8th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was ashore eight miles south-west of Porthdinllaen Point. There was a...