LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lotona
The barquentine Latona, oi Portsmouth, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sun- derland on the 30th January, stranded on the Smithic Sand. A whole gale was blowing from the north with a heavy sea running, and the weather was very cold with snow....
Francis Roberts
About 3 o'clock in. the afternoon on the 15th February, whilst the Life-boatmen were attending the funeral of the celebrated Life-boat veteran, James Haylett, the author of the famous phrase, " Caister men never turn back," the...
Patho
CLACTON.—Two telegrams having been received, one from the coxswain of the Southend Life-boat and the other from Maplin Lighthouse, reporting a vessel on the sands and showing signals of distress, on the 16th January, the Life-boat Albert...
Acknowledgment
THE photograph of the presentation of the Centenary Vellum at Appleclore, which was reproduced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, was taken by Mr. R. L.
Knight, photographer of Barnstaple, and was reproduced by his kind...
Category: Articles
Gundine
LIFE-BOATS SMOTHERED IN OIL Stromnest, and Longbope, Orkneys.— At 7.34 in the morning of the 24th of August, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to the Stromness life-boat station that the Norwegian tanker Gundine, of Arendal, was...
Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Gallilee, Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 29th April, 1938, the localfishing fleet put to sea. At 11 A.M. the Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Gallilee and Provider were off the Rock Buoy, waiting for the tide to rise. The...
Strathcoe
On the 4th of February, 1959, the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat rescued the crew of fourteen of the steam trawler Strathcoe. For this service, a full account of which appears on pages 222-3, Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick was awarded the silver...
Frolic
Swanage, Dorset. At 6.20 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the assistant secretary, who was at the boathouse with the coxswain and the motor mechanic, that a yacht was burning red flares three to four miles...
Panda
Margate, Kent. At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Margate sands.
At eleven o'clock the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
Daphne
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.55 on the morning of the 15th of May, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steamer Ewell'"h.a& picked up a small motor boat named Daphne, with three men aboard her, seven and a half miles north-west of...