LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Restless Wave
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 2nd June, 1938, the local fishing bDat Restless Wave, returning t'o harbour, missed the tide, and lay off the harbour bar to wait for sufficient water to enable her to enter. The wind rose, making...
A German Submarine
DECEMBER 18TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
A German submarine had struck the Wolf Rock and sunk. Naval vessels also sent to the rescue and picked up a number of survivors. but none was rescued by the lifeboat.
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
Lightvessel Service
A LETTER of commendation signed by the Secretary of the Institution, Mr.
Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., was sent to Coxswain A. E. V. Cadman, D.S.M., and the crew of the Dover life-boat on the part they played in rescuing seven...
Category: Services
A Cripple's Help.
The Dunbar and Skateraw branch has received £4:11:3 from a paralysed woman. It was got by the sale of work which she crocheted herself, though she can -only use her left hand,.
Category: Articles
Sunbeam
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.25 on the morning of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was on fire off North Head. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her...
Vellums Awarded to Three Men
AT Porthclais harbour in Pembroke- shire about 3.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 19th of July, 1963, Mr. B. J.
Williams heard a woman shouting that a man had fallen over the cliff. With the help of a friend, Mr. T. J....
Category: Awards
Yacht Haidee
LLANDUDNO.—At about 2.40 P.M. on the 7th September, the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched to the assistance of the cutter yacht Haidee, of Liverpool, which had shown a signal of distress while at anchor in the bay, during a strong...
Bourdrenes Habb
At 2 P.M. on 21st November, the same Life-boat was launehed to the disabled Norwegian brig Brodrenes Saab, of Tons- berg, which vessel exhibited signals of distress, it blowing hard at the time from the N.N.E. At the request of the master...
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At 3.55 p.m. on 23rd May, 1970, it was learnt that a youth had fallen over the cliff three to four miles westof the Anvil Point lighthouse. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 4.10. It was shortly before low water.
She...