LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lizzie Porter
Lizzie Porter is typical of the many pulling and sailing lifeboats which formed the bulk of the RNLI fleet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. George Cromarty, her coxswain at Holy Island, was twice awarded the RNLI Silver... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Edith
MOELPRE, ANGLESEY.—The schooner Edith, of Newry, bound from Liverpool for Drogheda, co. Louth, with coal, was lying in the outer roads while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, on the 25th...
Scarab
NEAR SHIVERING SAND Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.6 p.m.
29th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was firing red flares near the Shivering Sand towers.
The life-boat Greater London...
Dorelian
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on the Island of Sanda off the Mull of Kintyre. The...
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Leap overboard TORQUAY POLICE informed Brixham Coastguard at 1537 on October 5, 1973, that a girl was in the water off Meadfoot Beach and asked for the help of the ILB.
The message was passed to Torbay deputy launching...
A New Royal Decoration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...
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Appledore, Devon. At 6.28 on the evening of the 14th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people, who had gone rock climbing near Baggy Point, had not returned to their hotel as expected and were...
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CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOKD.—Signals were shown by the Tuskar Lighthouse for the steamer to proceed to her, on the 29th August. A messenger was at once sent to Wexford, but the tender could not get over the bar, owing to the heavy...
William and Anthony
HARWICH.—On the morning of the 14th March, signals haying been fired by the Cork Light-vessel, the Life-boat Springwell was launched at 1.15 during a strong E.S.E. gale and a heavy sea. On leaving the harbour, the brig William and Anthony,...
Sea Lion
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 10th July, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Strumble Head lighthouse that a red flare had been seen two miles to the north-west. There...