LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— 18th January. Red rockets had been reported, but nothing could be found.
It was learned later that a chimney had been on fire, and that burning soot carried seawards had given the...
An American Tug
OCTOBER 18TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. An American tug had been reported in distress, and an escort vessel had been sent out, but later it was reported that everything was normal and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £18 10s....
Rocks and gully between Little Fistral Bay and Fistral Beach
Rocks and gully between Little Fistral Bay and Fistral Beach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (18)
MAY 31ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. A steamer had been reported ashore and in need of help at Newfoundland Bay, twelve miles east of Old Head Lighthouse, but she got off and went on her way without the life-boat’s help. - Rewards, £9...
Red Lancer
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Red Lancer, with a crew of nineteen, was ashore on the Reef Rocks at the entrance to Stornoway harbour. At nine...
A Canoe
SOLDIERS RESCUED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.23 a.m.
on i9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two soldiers were missing from a canoe east of St. Govans Head and at 2.38 the Tenby life-boat...
Talvaldis
JULY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. At 7.10 P.M. the Prawle Point Signal Station reported that a vessel was being bombed by enemy aeroplanes three or four miles away. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, but the sea was smooth. At 7.30...
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. Bronze Medal Awarded
THE Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal to Mr. Hugh MacKay, Senr., of Hilton, on the north-east coast of Rossshire on the Moray Firth, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to four other men for their gallantry in attempting to save a...
Category: Services
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 22nd of May, 1952, the Civic Guard reported that a boy had fallen down a cliff about one and a half miles from the harbour to the east of Howth Head. The life-boat R.P.L.
was...
Cyrus
A heavy southerly gale was experienced here on. the 27th September, and the brigantine Cyrus, while running for Rye Harbour, grounded outside the East Pier, and as the tide rose she filled, and the crew, fearing the mast would part, took to...