LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Torpedo Boat Destroyer Success
During a severe S.E. gale on the 27th December the Torpedo-boat Destroyer Success ran ashore on the rocky coast at Kingsbarns, about six miles from St. Andrews. The vessel was steaming south, and in the darkness, without any shore lights to...
A Steamer
At 7.50 A.M. on 20th May a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the Kentish Knock Lightship had reported a large steamer ashore on the Knock Sands, but that she was not making a distress signal. Communica- tion was...
Freda
Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Minehead, Somerset. — At noon on the 5th of August, 1949, the police reported that two men in a rubber dinghy were be.ing blown out to sea from St. Audries Bay, and the life-boat Kate Greatorex put out at 12.30. A light south-westerly breeze...
Angle Centenary
The Angle life-boat station, on the Pembrokeshire coast, which was established in 1868, celebrated its centenary last year. During the last 100 years Pembroke- shire life-boats, it was stated at the ceremony, had saved 1,295 lives, 240 of...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...
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Rostellecois
Padstow, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 19th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a boat near Stepper Point in a dangerous position. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. Flares of distress were seen later and...
Falavee
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—Early on the morning of the 1st February, 1938, a fisherman reported distress flares from a vessel ashore on Dhorling sandbank, Davaar Island. She was the coasting steamer Falavee, of Belfast, bound with a cargo of...
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Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 22nd of November, 1954, the coxswain reported that the Warden of the Calf of Man, who had been stranded at Port St. Mary for six days by bad weather, was anxious to return to the island...
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MISSING BUOY TAKEN IN TOW Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.10 on the morning of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flashing light had been seen south-east-by-south of Portland Bill moving west. There...