LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Hope, of Maldon
On the even- ing of the 29th October, a telephone message was received from the pierhead that flares could be seen west of the pier. A whole W. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life-boat Greater London put out at...
Mrs. Adam Maitland, of Aberdeen
Mrs. Adam Maitland, who died on 5th October, was the founder of the Aberdeen Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and was chiefly responsible, with Mrs.
D. M. Kilgour, now its president, for making it one of the most successful in...
Category: Obituaries
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeffrey Wright who, after serving for 10 years as bowman of the Fleetwood life-boat, was its coxswain from the autumn of 1933 until the end of 1947.
He won the silver medal for...
Category: Articles
Rosemary and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that, as the weather was freshening, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing cobles Rosemary and Hilda II which had left the...
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Kilmore, Wexford.—At half past two in the afternoon on the 8th of August, 1949, a signal fire was seen on the Great Saltee Island. Two men were known to be camping there and, as a strong south-westerly breeze was blowing with a rough sea and...
Peggy, of Lowestoft
Margate, Kent. — At about 8.45 P.M.
on the 16th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a vessel near the Long Nose Rock, two miles east of the life-boathouse, was burning flares. A fresh E.S.E. breeze was blowing,...
Traquair
Caister, Norfolk. —At 5.20 in the morning, on the 22nd of November1950, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that a vessel seemed to be in distress and aground on Scroby Elbow to the south-east. At 5.30 the life-boat Jose...
Three Tugs Towing Hoppers
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.0 in the afternoon, on the 3rd of December, 1950, the South Gare coastguard tele- phoned that three tugs towing hoppers were making heavy weather. One tug and hopper were close inshore. The life-boat crew assembled...
The S.S. Rocquaine
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning of the 25th of September, 1951, the S.S. Rocquaine, of Guernsey; bound from Newport for Guernsey, signalled that three of her crew had been badly burnt by an explosion in her hold, and asked for the...
Lord Wakefield
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the 18th December, 1938, at 1.24 P.M., the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Lord Wakefield was making for harbour where there was not sufficient water. A heavy sea was running, with strong S.E. wind...