LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Formby Light-Ship
DECEMBER 8TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 2.20 A.M. a message was received from the Dock Board Authorities that the Formby Light-ship had been in collision with an unknown vessel and was adrift. A fresh N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...
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APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.
The...
The United States Army Motor Launch M.T.392
JUNE 30TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
At 8.18 in the evening, information was received from the Longships Lighthouse, through Land’s End Radio and the coastguard, that a boat was adrift about half a mile north-west of the...
A High Speed Launch
JANUARY 13TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
At 1.30 in the morning the Wick coastguard telephoned that a high speed launch was ashore at the Beacon, the southwest point of Stroma. The weather was calm and the sea smooth. The motor...
Esso Ottawa, of Liverpool
DECEMBER 18TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Esso Ottawa, of Liverpool, was drifting towards the Newcombe Sands. She was a tanker of 900 tons and had a crew...
Medals for Devon Coxswains
Coxswain Edwin Distin, of Salcombe, who won the silver medal in the third month of the war, has now been awarded the bronze medal for rescuing the crew of an Admiralty salvage craft, in very heavy seas. His motor mechanic was ill, and his...
Category: Articles
H.M. King Edward VIII, Patron of the Institution
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 130 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 39 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 15th, 1936 64,658 H.M. King Edward VII, Patron of the...
Category: Committee
A Coble
On the 13th March an open boat was seen in ex- treme danger a mile to seaward of New- biggin Point. A south-east gale was blow- ing at the time, and there was a heavy surf on the beach. The life-boat was quickly manned, and on reaching the...
Thetis, of London
On the 19th January, at 10 P.M., the schooner Thetis, of London, foundered 5 miles off St. Catherine's Point, on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. Her crew, 4 in number, took to their boat, and on the fol- lowing morning, between 8...
The Ex-Danish Fishing Boat Vesterland
OCTOBER 2 3RD. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 11.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel five or six miles N.E. by N. of Buckie, burning what appeared to be distress signals, and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.55...