LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Nolisement
MARCH 22ND. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE: OF MAN. At 7 A.M. the Castletown coastguard telephoned, for information only, that a vessel was ashore at Strandhall, one and a quarter miles E. by N. of Port St. Mary.
Thirty-five...
An All-Night Service at Selsey
ON the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1951, a south-westerly gale was blowing at Selsey and the seas were very rough, particularly in the shallow water near the Owers Banks. At five minutes past four the Selsey coast- guard reported to...
Category: Services
Bobbie
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 3.49 p.m.
on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Bobbie was firing distress signals three to four miles east south east of Ramsey harbour. The lifeboat Thomas Corbett was...
Varvassi
GREEK STEAMER AGROUND ON THE NEEDLES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.26 in the morning of January 5th, 1947, the Totland coastguard reported to the life-boat station by telephone that a message had been received from a vessel aground near...
Caught by conditions
3 September 2011: Porthcawl’s B class lifeboat Rose of the Shires was called out to rescue two kayakers who’d got caught out by a sudden change in conditions. The crew had just finished a fundraising bike ride when they got the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Eumaeus
DEC. 11TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 5.5 P.M. messages were received at Dun Laoghaire that a large vessel was aground on the Kish Bank, and that two tugs were...
Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate
Coxswain Stephen Clayson, who died in July, 1937, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Margate life-boat for over seven years and coxswain for over twenty years. During that time the life-boats rescued...
Category: Obituaries
The Dutch Hospital Ship De Hoop
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 22nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop, which was bound for Scarborough and was due to arrive at eight...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-eighth Annual Sleeting of this most important Society, established by the Bi iti-.h public to relieve Shipwrecked Sailors of all Nations, when cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held on the 8th May, at Willis's...
Category: Meetings
Brabloch
BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only...