LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Ann, of New Quay
On the 14th February the schooner Mary Anne, of New Quay, while attempting to enter the Boyne with a cargo of Indian corn, during a strong wind from the S.W. and a heavy surf, struck on Drogheda Bar. The life-boat stationed at that place...
Small change, big hearts
It’s a Saturday afternoon in Manchester, 1891. Thousands flock to the city’s streets to catch a glimpse of something they have never seen before: lifeboat crew members and their lifesaving craft. As the lifeboats – from the...
Category: Articles
Ecclefechan
DUNBAR.—While a moderate. E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and thick weather, on the morning of the 23rd February, intelligence was received that a. large vessel, which was subsequently ascertained to be the fourmasted barque...
Richard, of Goole
On the 8th April, the sloop Richard, of Goole, was stranded, during a strong N.E. gale, on the Nest Sands, about half a mile from Blakeney Harbour. She at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly replied to by the Brightwell life...
Oregon, of Stonehaven
On the 7th April, the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven, ran ashore on the South Gare Sand. The Middlesborough life-boat was towed again to the river's mouth, whence she proceeded to the sunken vessel and rescued her crew, 4 in...
Life-Boats for Ships of War
THE melancholy accident which occurred to two boats of H.M.S. Ariadne, in March of the present year, again revived the questions as to the most suitable life- boats for ships of war, and the best description of apparatus for lowering them...
Category: Articles
Miss Hunt
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress being seen in the bay, the No. 1 Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 9.10 P.M.
on the 25th January, while a strong gale from N.E. was blowing with severe squalls, a heavy sea, and snow....
Ken Derham,
NOVEMBER 1993 Ken Derham, chairman of Mudeford lifeboat station from 1976 to 1993. He was the founder honorary secretary of the station in 1963, a post he held until 1976 when he became the deputy launching authority until 1985. Mr Derham...
Category: Obituaries
Annual Awards 1978
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of life saving by a lifeboatman during 1978 has been made to Coxswain John Petit of St Peter Port for the rescue of two men from the oil rig Orion on the night of February...
Category: Awards
Fly, Pride of Rosslare and St. Joseph
PROPELLER FOULED BY NETS Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 7 o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1947, flares were seen in South Bay, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 7.20. A strong southerly...