LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contributions from Shipping Companies
As announced in the February issue of The Lifeboat, we propose to publish lists of the gifts received from shipping companies in gratitude for services rendered to their vessels by Life-boats.
To the list published in the...
Category: Donations
Henrietta, of Goole
A month later, on the night of 22nd December, the Gorleston Motor Life-boat was launched with a full blowing from the N.E. and a gale very got up very o'clock. The ketch Henrietta, of Goole, was lying in the Yarmouth Roads with two...
Bronze Medals for Irish Life-Boatmen
Bronze medals for gallantry have been awarded to two Irish life-boatmen, Coxswain Samuel Nelson of Donaghadee and Second Coxswain Patrick Power, of Dunmore East. Coxswain Nelson won his medal for two services, one on 2151. November and the...
Category: Articles
Racing Dinghies
At 2.30 P.M. on the 30th August the coxswain saw a dinghy, which was racing, capsize.
She was helped by an attendant launch.
A few minutes later another dinghy filled, and the life-boat Agnes Cross was...
Ada (1)
On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...
Amateur Life-Boatman's Gallantry
WHILE the engineers of the Institution were engaged in constructing the new launching Slipway at Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire, for the Motor Life-boat which was sent to that Station in March last, the foreman in charge of the works Mr. T...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (2)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At i p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an 18-foot yacht had capsized off Fontagary and three people were clinging to her. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was...
The Norwegian Fishing Boat Reform
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 9.50 on the evening of 27th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Norwegian fishing boat Reform, with an injured man aboard, fifty miles north-north-west of Barra Head, had...
Agricola
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with sleet, squally weather and a heavy sea, on the 3rd March the Coastguard watchman reported a schooner about five or six miles out, bearing N.N.W. from the look-out house, in...
Morning Star
RED FLARES SEEN The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 2.17 a.m. on 2nd March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Rhosilly Point. There was a moderate southeasterly breeze with a corresponding...