LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Troubadour
At 10 P.M.
on the 1st March, during a southerly gale, signals of distress were observed from a vessel in close proximity to the Breakwater Lighthouse, The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was at once despatched to her...
Janet Anderson
On the 13th April the Life-boat was launched at 7.40 A.M. to the assistance of the fishing-boat Janet Anderson, of Gourdon, which being unable to return to her own port in consequence of a heavy sea made for Johnshaven. The Life-boat put a...
Volusia
PORT PATRICK.—On the 2nd June, while a moderate wind was blowing from the E.N.E. and a rough sea was running, the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3, was launched at 10.30 A.M., with a view of carrying out the usual quarterly...
Lieut.-Col. H. W. Madoc, Isle of Man
LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that...
Category: Obituaries
Tinker
At 1.15 A.M. on the 23rd August the coxswain was told by the coastguard that a small vessel was burning distress signals about one mile N.E. of Lade coastguard station, A moderate southerly gale was blowing, with a choppy sea, and thick rain...
Bluebird
Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman reported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M.
on the 10th August that a yacht had been dismasted a mile south of Dungeness.
She was the Bluebird, bound for Portsmouth from Dover, with...
Wrecked!
The German oil-tanker D. L. Harper on the Crane Rock, near The Lizard. - View image in PDF
(See page 513.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat
W Moelfre, Anglesey. — On the 2nd August a party of six put out in a rowing boat from Benllech. They lost their oars. The owner of the boat, seeing this, went after them in another boat.
He reached them, and got aboard with...
Rosalie
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a man reported that a small vessel four miles east-south-east of Walney light- house was flying a flag and appeared to be in difficulties. At three o'clock the...
Orca
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 28th of September.
1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a red flare had been seen half a mile west of Polperro. At 4.50 the life-boat Deneys lieitz put...