LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas Mason
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. — The schooner Thomas Mason, of Beaumaris, stranded on the West Hoyle bank in a W.N.W. wind, misty weather, and a choppy sea on the 14th October. At 8.30 A.M. the Life-boat proceeded to her, and remained by her until high...
Mirliton
On the 31st October flares were seen in the direction of the Holme Sand during a fresh S.E. by S. breeze, and a moderate sea, and the Gorton lightship also firedguns and rockets. The Life-boat proceeded out at 3.25 A.M. in tow of a steamtug,...
Paul
TRAMORE, COUNTY WATERFORD.—The brig Paul, of Hennebont, was seen standing into the bay on the morning of the 22nd February, after a very stormy night.
She had only two topsails and a jib set and appeared to be labouring...
Forthcoming Articles
OWING to the space given in this number to the Rye disaster a number of articles which would otherwise have appeared have been held over until the next issue.
They include an article on the Life-boat Service in Iceland...
Category: Articles
Ben Strome
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel seaward of Buchan Ness lighthouse was showing distress signals. The life-boat coxswain was ill, and the motor life-boat Duke of Connaught was launched at 8.40...
Penguin
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secretary of the station was out fishing near Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, in the motor boat Penguin. The engine broke'down, and owing to the strong ebb...
A Small Boat
On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.
breeze was blowing, and a...
Viking and Loch Maree
Minehead, Somerset. — During the evening of the 9th August, 1939, a message was received from the Hurlestone Point coastguard that the motor yacht Viking was on fire six miles north of Porlock Weir and that the motor yacht Loch Maree, of...
Spinel
Troon, Ayrshire. — At 4.15 in the morning of the 29th of February, 1948, the Kildonan coastguard asked for the life-boat's help for a vessel ashore one mile east of Pladda, and at five o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond,...
A Motor Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.55 on the night of the 2nd of April, 1948, the St. Ann's Head coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been re- ceived from a resident of Wooltack Point, that his brother, Mr. Codd, had left for...