LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Perry
CASTLETOWN, ISLE oi1 MAN.—It was reported, on the evening of the 2nd October, that a schooner in Derbyhaven was flying a flag of distress. The Hope Life-boat was launched at 6.30, and found the vessel, which proved to be the John Perry, of...
H.M.S Niger
A few minutes after mid-day on the llth November Coxswain William Adams, of the North Deal Life-boat, was called out, and it was reported to him that a man-of-war had been blown up. He at once hurried to the beach and saw that a cruiser was...
Obituary
WE regret to report the death of Mr. ROBERT BIRKBECK, which took place on the 19th November, 1920, at the age of eighty-three after a loug illness.
Mr. Birkbeck had been a Member of the Committee of Management since ability...
Category: Obituaries
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HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—On the llth February a man and his wife, walking from the mainland to Hilbre Island, were overtaken by a very heavy snowstorm, and as they had not returned, and it was doubtful whether they would have reached the island...
Eclipse
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—The schooner Eclipse, of Peel, Isle of Man, bound from Fleetwood for Liverpool, with gravel, was seen aground on the most dangerous part of Taylor's Bank, having stranded there in misty weather, on the morning of...
Davenport
May Meeting.
Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...
Amin
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 3.25 P.M. on the 19th September the Castletown coastguard telephoned that Langness lighthouse-keepers had reported a rowing boat with three people on board being carried out to sea by the strong current off...
lolanda
Torbay, Devonshire.-—At 6.5 A.M. on the 24th June, 1938, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board had run on to a submerged rock near Berry Head.
A gentle west breeze was blowing;...
Patriot
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—• During the afternoon of the 19th September, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Patriot went to the Blackwater Light-vessel to fetch a man ashore.
As, when she was due to return, a strong...
The Converted Ship's Boat Sun
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a man at Pittenweem had reported that a small boat was drifting towards the shore east of Pittenweem. It was low water when the...