LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ensign
On the 15th April the South Shields coast- guard reported that a steamer was ashore at the end of the South pier. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan...
Pill Branch
Two of the drivers. Peter Marlow (I) and Paul Selway (r), who took part in a sponsored drive around the lifeboat stations of the South West, organised by Pill branch, Bristol, last September.
They are seen here outside the... - View image in PDF
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Chili
During foggy weather on 15th February the barque Chili, of Dunkirk, a large vessel of 1,800 tons, carrying a crew of twenty men, became embayed about one mile to the west of the Lizard and was within 150 fathoms of the shore. A messenger...
Vieux Copains
Driven ashore THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Stornoway lifeboat station received a message from HM Coastguard at 0540 on Sunday, August 28, saying that a small foreign vessel, Vieux Copains, had gone aground at Battery Point at Stornoway Bay, one...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS.—On the morning of the 9th October a heavy sea rose up, and as several cobles had gone out early, some fishing and some piloting, it was feared that some accident might occur to them in coming in over the bar. The Life-boat...
Sterry
PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat John Francis White rendered very valuable assistance to the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, on Easter Sunday morning, the 3rd April. There was a strong wind blowing from the west, and the vessel was...
Herring Boats
Wicklow.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1949, the local herring boats went to sea, but were overtaken by bad weather, and an hour later put back. One was missing, and at 5.5 the life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched. A...
Kerroch
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 5.30 P.M. on the 17th February, 1938, on a message from the coastguard that they had seen a schooner drift ashore west of Shoreham.
A...
Merchant Vanguard
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—In the early hours of the 16th of June, 1956, the lighthouse keeper telephoned that rockets were being fired two miles from the harbour. At 2.30 the life- boat Annie Blanche Smith put out in a very rough sea....
S.S. Yacht Vixen
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 11.30A.M. on the 20th January, the George Moore Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the assistance of the s.s. yacht Vixen, of Beaumaris, which was found to be abandoned.
With much difficulty, owing...