LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 4.20 P.M. on the 19th February, when the steamer Owain Tudur, of Hull, was proceeding to sea she took the ground, and the seas commenced to wash over her. The No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched to her assistance, but on...

It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths: January Horace Eric Pengilly, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboat from 1967 to 1968 and then coxswain/mechanic until 1978. He had served as second coxswain from 1963 to 1967 and...

At 4.45 A.M. on the9th February, a telephone message was received from Collieston, stating that a vessel was ashore on Forvie Sands, about two miles to the north of Newburgh. The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 19 were immediately...

DUNGENESS.—In response to signals of distress, the No. 1 Life-boat R. A. 0. B.

was launched at 2.40 A.M. on the 24th February, and found the four-masted barque Kelton, of Glasgow, stranded on the Newcome Sands. At the...

IN 1951 life-boats went out to the help of yachts 120 times. That figure includes sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts. It is nearly a quarter of the total of launches for the year, which was...

Rhyl, Flintshire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 10.15 p.m. on i5th July, 1966, news was received that the m.f.v.

Lily had been towed from about 11 miles west of the Bar lightvessel by the Bar pilot boat and handed over to...

During a strong E.N.E. gale on the 12th May the fishing boat Catherine, of Arbroath, whilst returning to Harbour was in considerable danger owing to the heavy sea running, and there was some proba- bility of her being dashed on to the rocks....

1st December.

A German trawler, the Spitzbergen, of Wesermunde, stranded and the life- boat crew assembled, but did not launch, as the vessel was not in im- mediate danger. Later a message, believed to have come from...