LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Dorcas
The No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched at 7.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the north of the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat reached the vessel at 8.10 P.M., and found that she was...
The S.S. Viscountess
HOLY ISLAND.—The s.s. Viscountess, of and from Aberdeen, bound for Hull -with a general cargo, stranded about a mile and a quarter from Holy Island Castle in a gale of wind from the W. on the 28th August. The No. 1 Life-boat Grace Darling...
Lily
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing coble Lily left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 19th April to haul crab pots. Later on the wind freshened considerably, and when the coble was seen making for home a strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Pack of Cards
Dover, Kent. At 5.27 on the afternoon of the 4th September, 1961. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Pack of Cards was drift- ing three miles west of the Admiralty pier. The life-boat Southern Africa left her...
Awards to Honorary Workers
The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to : Mr. J. G. McMoRRis, on his retirement after 24 years as honorary secretary of the Portrush...
Category: Awards
Sarah Ann
On the 17th February, shortly before 11 P.M., whilst the schooner Sarah Ann, of Fowey, was bound from London to Bridport, with a cargo of cement, she stranded on the Newcombe Bar Her signals for assis- tance were seen by the Coastguard who...
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic (2)
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
Hildegard Knuppel
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...
A Small Inflatable Dinghy and Ondine
Nine rescued A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY, With One man on board, was seen by HM Coastguard at 2018 on Sunday, July 4, some three miles north east of Beaumaris lifeboat station, drifting out to sea with the freshening offshore wind and ebbing...
None (2)
Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...