LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Folly
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.14 p.m. on 23rd September, 1968, the coastguard reported that a small boat in Pegwell bay needed assistance. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 5.25 in a fresh westerly breeze with a slight sea...
Einnan
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 24th of Septem- ber, 1958, the coastguard reported that a message had been received from the wife of a salmon fisherman at Machrihanish that a yacht was dragging her anchor in...
The S.S. Helena Modjeska, of New Orleans
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 2.8 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard telephoned that a ship was in danger of going aground on the Goodwins. A light south-east wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...
Winifred and Shawford
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Book Review
" THE LIFE-BOAT AND ITS STORY." By Noel T. Methley. Sidgwick and Jack- son. 7s. 6d.
In our May issue we briefly noted the publication of this book, which reached us too late for review. As the Life- boat Journal...
Category: Articles
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th of Novem- ber, 1956, a message was received that a cow had fallen down a cliffside about half a mile north of Bull Bay. Efforts to rescue it had been made by the fire...
Atlantic
At 10 P.M. on the 27th October, in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Dr. Batton was launched from this station, and proceeded through a heavy sea and fresh breeze at S.E. to the assistance of the barque Atlantic, of Grimstad, which...
Snowdrop
SCARBOROUGH.—The coxswain of the Life-boat Queensbury having been informed that some fishing cobles were in danger, the Life-boat was launched at 4.45 A.M. on the 25th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a...
The S.S. Alice of Bremen
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, the Holy head coastguard tele- phoned that the S.S. Alice of Bremen, which had broken down and had been towed to Moelfre Bay by a pilot boat, was dragging...
H.M.S. Musketeer and Saucy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.
Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...