LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...
Category: Inaugurations
Moyallon
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TROON DECEMBER 6TH. - TROON, AYR-SHIRE During the afternoon a whole gale from the north-west was blowing, with a very heavy sea running and fierce squalls of hail. It was described as the worst on that coast for many...
Rewards to Life-Boats' Crews
WITH " revolving years" the seasons of storm again and again occur, and each season brings more and more prominently into view the " Life-boat and its Work," whilst each seems to demand for that work a greater and greater...
Category: Articles
Boree (1)
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...
Strathrye
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
IRB Crew Climb Over Rocks
FRAMED letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., have been sent to Mr. C. J. Bean and and Mr. R. Swalwell, the crew of the Scarborough IRB, for their efforts when a child...
Category: Services
Wheal Geavor
Sinking trawler DUNMORE EAST PILOT STATION informed the deputy launching authority of Dunmore East lifeboat station at 1035 on Monday October 12, 1981, that the trawler Wheal Geavor, with a crew of three, was disabled and making water; she...
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St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.35 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1958, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that three men were marooned on the rocks at Greve d'Agette, but that they were in no immediate danger as it was low...
Frem
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had anchored off Humanby Gap. As the weather got worse her position became dangerous, and at 9.54 the life- boat The...
Kathleen Claire
At 7.15 P.M. on the 9th June a mes- sage was received by telephone from the Civic Guards at Curracloe that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay.
The Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. put out in a moderate S.S.W. breeze...