LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dinghies Shearwater, Fillister, Departure and another
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.35 P.M. on the 10th August a telephone message was received from the Hon.
George Colville, deputy chairman of the committee of management, directing the life-boat to proceed at once to a...
Provider (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local motor fishing boat Provider left harbour at 5 A.M. on the 10th February.
Conditions were bad, and at eight o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and the sea was making...
Skylark
Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...
Wildgoose
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 9.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was anchored in heavy seas in Pevensey Bay and her crew appeared to be in...
Lord Essendon
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.40 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1957, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Lord Essendon, of Hull, with a crew of twenty, was ashore at Ham Bressay. The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...
Jondee
Engine broken down ON TUESDAY, MAY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station at 1337 that a motor yacht, Jondee of Saundersfoot, was in trouble 300-400 yards off Lydstep Head, some five miles west of the...
Castlebrae and Kitty Mackay
JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
The S.S. Eumaeus (1)
DEC. 11TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN, AND WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 5.5 P.M. messages were received at Dun Laoghaire that a large vessel was aground on the Kish Bank, and that two tugs were being sent from Dublin to her...
Passages of Life-Boats In the Gales. Port Patrick, Troon, and Moelfre
THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...
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The Netherlands-Registered Yacht Rose Bank (1)
Determination in appalling conditions saves four 1-iftbtial.
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal, and his six-man crew received medal service certificates, following a hazardous rescue of...