LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dutch Awards to Torbay Crew
THE Queen of the Netherlands awarded the silver medal of humane assistance to ex-Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay for the rescue of a man from a Dutch lighter on the 7th of December, 1959. The other seven members of the crew were each awarded...
Category: Awards
Louci Gougy
MAY 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.10 A.M. a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through theDeal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
Brett
Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...
Taranaki
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...
Jenny Lind
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—At midnight on the 4th January, during a very strong gale from S. by E., a light was observed from a vessel which was apparently ashore in South Bay. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Ethel Eveleen were at once summoned, and...
Helder
APRIL 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly before 6 A.M. a Kingsdown boatman reported that a steamer was ashore in Old Stairs Bay, Kingsdown. There were patches of fog, with a light south-westerly wind blowing and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat...
Lady Launcher Passes Away
Lady launcher passes away It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.
Doris lived...
Category: Articles
Perseverance
WEXFORD.— A sudden gale sprung up from the E.N.E., accompanied by snow-showers and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 25th March, and the schooner Perseverance, of Wexford, homeward bound in ballast from Dublin, stranded on Raven Point. The...
A Boat (3)
Margate, Kent - At 6.36 p.m. on 16th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the coswain that a small boat with two men on board was in difficulties one and a half miles off the coastguard lookout at Foreness.
In view of...
The S.S. Clewbay, of Belfast
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford—At 11.45 in the morning of the 21st of April, 1948, the steamer lerne, of the Irish Lights Commissioners, wirelessed that a vessel was stranded on the east side of the Blackwatcr Bank. The same message was...