LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gift from a Will
THE Institution has received a gift of £50 from the surviving brother and sister of a marine surveyor in Wales who died intestate at the end of 1951.
They write that they know their brother had a great admiration for...
Category: Donations
Alcinous
DUNGENESS, KENT.—On the 6th April the Coastguard watchman informed the coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.E. that a large steamer had stranded on the Newcome Sand. He at once summoned the crew and at 6.15 p.m. the boat was launched. A strong...
A Dinghy (15)
At 1.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy had capsized off Seapoint. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings 10 minutes later in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Northern Star and Lord Londesborough
About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January the wind increased and the weather became very bad, which caused considerable anxiety for the safety of some of the cobles which had left for the fishing grounds earlier in the morning....
Sea Venture III and Espardarte, and Cabin Cruiser Alcidan
At 10.27 p.m. on 22nd October, 1966, news was received that the cabin cruiser Alcidan was overdue on a passage from Weymouth and that the Norwegian tanker Maakfjell had taken three men off ayacht they had taken in tow. They were eleven and a...
Thessalia, of Whitby
About a fortnight later, the same Life- boat was able to effect the rescue of another Shipwrecked crew. A strong gale from the E.N.E. was experienced there on the 10th February, and, about ten o'clock at night, a vessel was observed...
Kylequeen
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Kylequeen was in difficulties seven miles south-west of St. Anne's...
Lifeboat Services
At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat assistance, as her engine was broken...
Category: Services
James Cuckow, of Ipswich
On the 6th March the schooner James Cuckow, of Ips- wich, went ashore on the Barnard Sand, daring a fresh gale from N.N.E. The life- boat Sisters was promptly launched to the wreck, and was fortunately the means of rescuing the whole of the...
Paramount
Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...