LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Clears
JULY 15TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2 P.M. news was received that the steamer, St. Clears, of Newport, of 8,000 tons, had stranded at Whitberry Ness in a fog, and at 2.5 P.M. the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. A...
Henry Harvey
On the 25th March the Life-boat was launched at 8.40 P.M., and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Henry Harvey, of Hayle, bound from Runcorn for Lelant with coal, which while endeavouring to make the harbour at Penzance in a...
Alf
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
Linda, of Bray
CARNSORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 25th August the yacht Linda, of Bray, having been caught in a gale of wind from the N.E. on a lee shore, with only two men on board, who had no provisions, those men remained in great peril for some...
Prosperity
During a southerly gale on the 25th Feb., the sloop Prosperity, of Portmadoc, sank off Aber- sooh, but the mast remaining above water, the crew found refuge on it till towards daybreak. After being four hours in their fearful position, their...
Bonnie Lass
THURSO, — Flare lights were burnt by the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, bound for Castle Hill, in ballast, which was riding in Scrabster Eoadstead, during a violent gate from the N.W., and a terrible sea on the 2nd February. The Life-boat...
A Hundred Years Ago. A Wreck of Aberdeen
THE brig Superb, of Aberdeen, was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand, in April, 1829, out of which three men were saved (two having died in the rigging), by Win. Mudd and S. Wordley, masters of two smacks, after persevering exertion during fifteen...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—31st August, 1939. A cry for help had been heard by three boys from the Lydstep Caves.
The motor life-boat was launched, and a coastguard search party went by car along the top of the cliff, and got...
Fifty Years of Life-Boat Design
THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.
I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...
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"Royal" Help
The honorary secretary of one of the Institution's branches in the Midlands writes that he has had difficulty in getting helpers for the work of the branch, but he adds : " Fortunately I am lucky in this respect, as I have been...
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