LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Selsey, Sussex - At 6.12 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht three-quarters of a mile west of Bognor pier was signalling for help. The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at 6.24 in a...
Notes of the Quarter
One of the most outstanding services in the history of the Life-boat Institution is described in this number of THE LIFE-BOAT. It was carried out by the Holyhead and Moelfre life-boats and led to the award of two gold medals. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
Cresswell
New Brighton, Cheshire.—About 7.45 on the morning of the 26th of Novem- ber, 1955, the port radar station reported that a message had been received from a steamer that a fishing boat was in distress and asking for help between C.19 and C.21...
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Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Penlee Lifeboat Disaster With great sorrow the death is announced of the coxswain and crew of Penlee lifeboat which was lost on service on the night of Saturday December 19, 1981.
Penlee lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Solomon...
Category: Obituaries
Henning
On the 6th April, at 4.30 A.M., during a moderate N.E. wind, signal guns were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded under sail to the North Sand Head and found a barque ashore on the North-east part of the...
Dinas
brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close to rocks,...
Mary Brocklebank
At 10.30 P.M.
on the 7th January the Coxswain of the Life-boat Christopher Brown received information by telephone from the light- keeper at Trwyn Dhu Lighthouse, that a vessel in close proximity to the Dutch- man Bank was...
Earnest and Dove
At 9.40 A.M.
on the 21st April it was reported that a shrimp boat was dismasted in the roads and in distress. As it was blowing a moderate gale from S.S.W., with a heavy sea, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark, Lane was launched, and...