LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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APRIL 15TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the evening a young man, a visitor to Brixham, fell from the cliffs between Landscove Camp and Berry Head and was severely injured. His cries for help were heard by another young man, walking along the...
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
Ocean Sunbeam
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 10.48 in the morning of the 27th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a drifter was on the Newcombe Sandbank about a quarter of a mile to the east; and at 10.50 the life-boat Michael Stephens left her...
Pioneer
TO THE HELP OF A COBLE Flamborongh, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the weather became bad while the local fishing coble Pioneer was at sea, andat 11.55 the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was...
Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the weather deteriorated, and about 9.20 the coastguard told the coxswain of the No. 1 life-boat that the local fishing boat Provider A. was still at sea. She was making for the...
Joesphine
.—,On the 3rd March the barque Josephine, of London, whilst bound to Exeter with a cargo of lead, sprang a leak. In answer to her signals of distress the No. 1 Life-boat B.A.O.B. was launched and proceeded to her. On getting alongside it was...
Providence
On the 30th October the foreign barque Providence, of Dantzic, ran ashore at West Port, in Machrihannish Bay, Cantyre. The Campbeltown life-boat was brought to the spot from Campbeltown, a distance of 6 miles. Eight of the wrecked crew had...
Sirius
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 16th April, 1938, the local motor boat Sirius put out from Forth Clais with seventeen people on board, for a trip to Grasholme. They did not return when expected, and anxiety was felt for...
Kelpie
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...
Sally
TOW FOR TUG AFTER ENGINE BREAKS DOWN Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 9.35 on the morning of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tug Sally of Rochester, which had a crew of two and was bound for Swansea,...