LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silveium
Cloughey, Co. Down. — During the night of the 2nd June a small yacht was seen to be in difficulties off North Rock, and the motor life-boat William Maynard was launched at 11.5 P.M. There was no wind, and the sea was...
Strathavon, of Scarborough
Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...
Naming Ceremonies
EIGHT new motor life-boats have been named during the present year.
Accounts of these ceremonies will appear in the next issue of The Life-boat..
Category: Articles
Therese Emile Yuon
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of February, 1955, the trawler Therese Emile Yuon, of Concarneau, France, whose engine had broken down, was seen to break adrift from a Howth fishing boat, which was towing her towards...
Lapwing
Workington, Cumberland.—At mid- night on the 23rd of May, 1956, the dock gate foreman rang up to say that a small vessel was sending up red flares opposite the pier-head. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 12.15 early on...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 24th of February, 1950, six local cobles were fishing off Burniston when the wind increased to a fresh breeze from the east-south-east, accom- panied by snow showers. A rough sea rose. As the...
Bev
Ramsgale, Kent. — At 6.39 in the evening, on the 14th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat was making heavy weather half a mile off Dumpton Gap. At 6.45 the life- boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Sand Runner
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 7.40 in the morning on the 31st of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had been reported aground at Porth- meaor beach. At 8.3 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched, in a slight...
None (2)
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.35, on the evening of the 24th of July, 1950, the palice reported that a boy had fallen over the 400 feet cliffs at Maug- hold Head. He was so seriously injured that he could not be carried up the cliff. The...
Mrs. Talbot-Cadow, of Carlisle
MRS. W. TALBOT-CADOW, of Carlisle, died on the llth of February. She had been an active and successful honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for twenty-eight years. It was in 1923 that she became president of the Car- lisle and district...
Category: Obituaries