LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Louis Marguerite and the S.S. Miervaldis
MARCH 17TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that the French steamer Louis Marguerite was in need of help ten miles S.W. of Penzance. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and thick fog....
Coleman Hernon,
January 1996 Coleman Hernon, ex-coxswain of Aran Islands lifeboat (formally known as Galway Bay).
Coleman became bowman of the lifeboat in 1949, 2nd Coxswain in 1951 and coxswain in 1960. After 15 years as coxswain, Coleman...
Category: Obituaries
A Bronze Medal Service at Maryport
ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...
Category: Services
Katherina Kolkmann (1)
TEN MEN RESCUED Dover and Dungeness, Kent. At 4.58 a.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch ship, Katherina Kolkmann was in collision with the British coaster Gannet five miles south of...
Stephen Iredale
Stephen Iredale Staithes and Runswick helmsman Stephen Iredale has been awarded the Walter and Elizabeth Groombridge Award for the rescue of a lone sailor from the trimaran SIS (Spring 2001 issue, p. 10). The annual award is presented for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Stephen
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
Ameland
Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...
Lobora
FLEETWOOD.—On the 7th November one of the severest storms known for years was experienced on this part of the Coast of Lancashire. "While it was at its height signals of distress were observed throe miles out at sea on "Bernard'...
A Small Boat
Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...
The S.S. Stanlake (1)
MAY 24TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At 6.15 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that the firing of rifles or rockets had been heard in Broad Bay. Later a message was received from another source that a vessel was ashore near the...