LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penboch
On the evening of the 3rd of July, 1955, the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat rescued five men from the yacht Penboch, which had gone aground two miles from Southport pier. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Joseph...
A Dinghy (2)
PROTOTYPE LIFE-BOAT'S FIRST SERVICE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At a quarter to midnight on Tuesday the 17th September, 1963, the Needles coastguard reported to the coxswain that two boys had been missing on Tennyson Down since 5.45 that...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-eighth Annual Sleeting of this most important Society, established by the Bi iti-.h public to relieve Shipwrecked Sailors of all Nations, when cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held on the 8th May, at Willis's...
Category: Meetings
A Pile-Driver
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.20 P.M. on the 5th July, 1939, the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a pile-driver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderate squally S.S.\V. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea.
The...
The Belgian Fishing Trawler Amelie Suzanne
BELGIAN TRAWLER AIDED A BELGIAN fishing trawler, which ran ashore near Salcombc, Devon, on 1st April, 1972, led to the local life-boat being launched soon after 1.30a.m.
The wind was westerly, force 5 to 6, with a moderate...
Volontaire
The French schooner Volontaire anchored in Pol- kerris Bay on the 30th May during a strong S.W. gale and very heavy sea, and the Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney, when returning from another vessel, offered her assistance, as it...
Swift and Julia
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the afternoon of the 8th December two flags of distress were observed in Derbyhaven Bay during a gale from the W.S.W. The Hope Life-boat was launched at about 3.30 and brought ashore the crew, consisting of five...
Emily Wynne
SKERRIES.—The ketch Emily Wynne, of and for Wexford from Ayr, with a cargo of coal, which had anchored in Skerries Bay for shelter during a moderate gale from the E.S.E. and a heavy sea, showed signals of distress on the night of the 5th...
Florence
NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—The schooner Florence, of Belfast, bound to that port from Cardiff with coal, was seen tip be running for Dundrum Bay, apparently in distress, during a strong E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea at about 7.30 A.M. on the 22nd...
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, Anglesey
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, who died last February, had been Honorary Secretary of the Cemaes Bay District since 1921. Before that he had been the Honorary Treasurer for many years. He was an enthusiastic worker, organizing several...
Category: Obituaries