LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (183)
DECEMBER 7TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the naval authorities. - Rewards, £15 12s..
A Vessel (4)
MARCH 10TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. A vessel had grounded on the Longscar Rocks, but with the weather improving the crew decided to remain on board. - Rewards, £10 13s.
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some r e c e n t p u b l i c a t i o n s r e v i e w e d THE STORY OF THE PWLLHELI LIFEBOATS (1891-1991) by Jeff Morris THE STORY OF THE FRASERBURGH LIFEBOATS by Jeff Morris Both published by Jeff Morris at £2 including p&p The...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one of H.M. trawlers had struck a mine...
Life-Boatman's Gallant Swim
AT 10.20 on the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned the Flam- borough life-boat station that a young man had reported a friend of his in difficulties on a cliff near the Stacks Rocks at Flamborough...
Category: Services
First Knight (1)
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...
Osbourne, of Hartlepool
The brig Osborne, of Hartlepool, bound from London to Granton, in ballast, went ashore at Hadstone Scarr during a strong southerly wind, and in a heavy sea, on the 20th November. As soon as the vessel was observed to be in danger the...
A Boat
On the 16th May a sailor-boy, while endeavouring to reach his vessel, in Kedwharf Bay, in a boat from the shore, was driven out to sea by the strong ebb and high wind. The Moelfre life-boat was launched as soon as possible, and, after a long...
Alice
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The John Turner Turner Life-boat was launched at 3.30 A.M. on the 6th November, and brought ashore the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Alice, of and from Dinorwic, for Douglas, with slates, which was dragging...
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the morning of the 1st August several of the fishing-boats of this port were placed in danger by a strong breeze from the N.E., and the Life- boat People's Journal, No. 1, put to sea to render assistance. She was...