LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JUNE 5TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Returning from an exercise at 5.30 in the afternoon, the crew of the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards were told by the police that the coastguard had asked if they would...
Northern Star and Lord Londesborough
About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January the wind increased and the weather became very bad, which caused considerable anxiety for the safety of some of the cobles which had left for the fishing grounds earlier in the morning....
Boree
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...
Silver Strand
Islay, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morn- ing of the 5th of May, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on the Black Rock in the Sound of Islay and needed help.
The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on...
Annie
Large flares were seen in the direction of Middle Scroby Sand at 4 a.m. on the 5th December. The No. 1 Lifeboat Covent Garden was at once launched, proceeded to the sand, and found the schooner Annie, of Wick, bound from London for Peterhead...
Marie
BARMOUTH.— On the 27th January, during thick weather and a strong N.W.
wind, a small steamer signalled for a pilot, but the sea was too rough for an ordinary boat to cross the bar. The vessel was evidently a stranger, and...
Helicon
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 25th October, the coastguard watchman reported to the Coxswain that rockets were being sent up eastward of the Life-boat house, and as the Coxswain left his house he saw another rocket discharged. He...
Carl Palmby
Carl Palmby, awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum together with an inscribed wristwatch, holding a medallion presented to him by the Southern Gas Angling Society of which the man he rescued on February 27, 1981, is a... - View image in PDF
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BODY OF SWIMMER LANDED Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th August, 1962, the coastguard [informed the honorary secretary that a young woman had been swept from the rocks under Lands End by a large wave. At...
Fendyke (1)
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...