LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gallant Ramsgate Cook
ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.
Seven of the nine were rescued from the...
Category: Services
Hakon Jarl
GREAT YARMOUTH.—On the 18th March the barque Hakon Jarl, of Arendal, Norway, bound for G-oole, with a cargo of logwood, which had been riding in the roadstead, was seen drifting towards the Scroby Sands with a signal of distress flying. The...
Queen
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—On the afternoon of the 30th August the lightkeeper observed a yacht apparently capsized, with the crew clinging to her side. He at once reported the circumstance to the coxswain of the Life-boat Coard William Squarey, who...
Morton Castle
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At about 3 A.M., on the 23rd November, the Life-boat Mincing Lane put off to the aid of a schooner which was reported to be showing signals southward of Montrose.
With great difficulty and danger the...
Coxswain Thomas Sinclair
COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...
Category: Obituaries
Koningin Emma
On the 22nd Septem- ber, in response to a telephone message from Walton-on-the-Naze reporting that a large steamer was apparently ashore, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow put to sea. She spoke a trawler on her way out which reported that...
Eileen
At 9.30 A.M. on the 13th December information was received j that a barge was apparently ashore on the Hook Sands, and the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched to her assistance. It was blowing a S. by W. gale, the sea was...
Ability
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel east of Milford Docks was drag- ging her anchors and sounding distress signals on her siren. At 3.50 the life- boat Elizabeth...
A Boat
Ilfracombe, Devon.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 3rd September, 1939, information was received from the police that a small boat was in difficulties outside the breakers in Woollacombe Bay. A squally W. by S. wind was blowing, with a heavy...
A Boat
GORLESTON. — In spite of the very stormy condition of the weather on the 7fch October, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W., and the sea being very heavy, a zaaa went out in a small boat from the shore, with the intention of boarding...