LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hawkinge
ANOTHER YACHT IN PERIL Appledore, Devon.—At 8.50 in the evening of the 23rd of April, 1947, the yacht Hawk, of Southampton, which was moored in the pool, made distress signals. A strong west-north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
Betty, of Cork
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1949, the chairman of the Youghal life- boat station telephoned that he was anxious for the safety of his son and another man who had left Youghal for Cork in...
Barbara
At 4.45 P.M. on the 22nd February, the barometer having suddenly dropped to 28 • 2, with a full gale of wind from west, the schooner Barbara, which was lying in Scrabster Roads, made signals of dis- tress. The crew of the Life-boat Co-...
Alexandra
.—At 7.15 A.M. on the 13th November the Coxswain of the Life - boat, James Stevens No. 1, sighted a dismasted vessel about three miles to the south of Port St. Mary. He immediately assembled his crew, and very promptly launched the boat. A...
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SICK CHILD TAKEN FROM ISLAND IN GALE Gahvay Bay. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a child suffering from appendicitis to Rossaveel for...
An Aeroplane
JANUARY 6TH - 7TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the evening information was received from the coastguard that a British aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles south-west of Llanbedrog. A light...
Obituary
ADMIRAL JOHN HALLIDAY CAVE, C.B., V.P.—The Institution has sustained a grievous loss through the death of Admiral Cave, who passed away at his residence, 17, Palace Gate, Kensington, on Sunday, the 31st March, in his 86th...
Category: Obituaries
Equestrian, of Port Gordon
On the morning of the 16th March the same large Life-boat went off, in reply to signals of distress shown by the ketch Equestrian, of Port Gordon, and found that she had five feet of water in her. It was blowing heavily at the time from the...
Khedive
PALUNO, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock on the morning of the, 21st July, during squally weather and a heavy eea, a barque was observed aground on the Hasborough Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat, the British Workman, was launched and proceeded to the...
Lorn
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lancaster, bound from Wicklow for Liverpool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance.<...