LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penguin
At 9.5 P.M. on the 27th July a telephone message was received from the coastguard that flares of distress were being shown one mile N.E. of Rhyl Pier. A strong and increasing W.N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was rough. The pulling...
Mizpah
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At half pa^t one in the afternoon on the 9th of November, 1949, the coxswain reported that .the local motor fishing vessel Mizpah, with a crew of four, had not returned from the fishing...
Dagny
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 23rd of June, 1951, during a thick fog, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding SOS signals on her siren opposite the coastguard station. At 4.37 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
Gold Crown
The motor life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8 P.M. on the 20th November, as the Cromer coastguard had reported that a vessel had run ashore at East Runton, and was burning distress signals. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Sailing Dinghies (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 20th August,1961, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that at least ten sailing dinghies of the Shoreham yacht club had capsized during a local regatta. At four o'clock the...
Emma Louise
At 1.30 A.M. on the 14th April, during a whole E. by N. gale, the schooner Emma Louise, anchored in the road- stead, showed distress signals. The crew of the Life-boat Barak Austin were already assembled as the night was exceedingly wild ;...
Mr. R. O. Hill, of Drogheda
The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.
For twenty years, from 1911 to...
Category: Obituaries
Dunlin
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.35 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Trinity House vessel Patricia, which had been sheltering in Lancresse Bay, asked for the help of the life-boat in towing the auxiliary yacht Dunlin, of...
None (3)
Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th May, 1961, when the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put off in response to a call from the police at Louisburgh, Co.
Mayo, there was a strong west...
Stephens, Lady Jane and Queen Mab
MOTOR BOATS IN TROUBLE At 11.55 a-m- on 26th September, 1965, the east pier watchman fired maroons when he saw the motor boat Champion, which was towing the motor boat Stephens, foul the east pier throwing two men overboard. The life-boat...