LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.V. Lovat
MV Lovat sinks ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat at 0637 that MV Lovat had broadcast a mayday call and that her crew were abandoning ship.
The reported position...
Manta
The following life-boat service should have been included in the September, 1967, issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
Arklow, Wicklow - At 12.15 p.m. on 3rd May, 1967, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the motor...
M.F.V. Gratitude
MFV sinks MFV GRATITUDE, on passage from Lerwick to Macduff, sent a MAYDAY distress call at 0133 on Sunday April 24 to say that she had struck rock at Sumburgh Head; she was still afloat but needed immediate help. Shetland Coastguard...
Va-Sans-Peur
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of March, 1948, information was received from Dyffryn that two men had landed in a dinghy from the French fishing vessel Va-Sans-Peur, of Concarneau, bound for Liverpool, and had...
Eliza, of Middlesborough
On the! 6th December, the. brig Eliza, of Middlesboroxigh, was driven on the bar at the Tees' mouth. The Institution's life-boat at Seaton-Carew was soon launched, and proceeded through a high sea to the aid of her crew, 7 in number,...
Day Star (1)
SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
F. Edwards
On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....
Sensation
ALDEBURGH.—On the morning of the 1st November the coastguard on duty reported that guns were being fired and signal flags shown on board a vessel aground on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, theTe was a moderately rough...
B.E.M. for Scottish Coxswain.
Coxswain James Thomson, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has won both the Institution's silver medal and the British Empire Medal for rescuing the crew of a steamer in the blizzard which swept the west coast ot Scotland in the middle of...
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Injured girl RAMSEY COASTGUARD asked Peel lifeboat station honorary secretary at 1520 on Monday August 25, 1980, if the lifeboat would launch immediately to go to the help of a girl who had fallen off the cliffs between Niarbyl and White...