LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Hope
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th February the Coastguard at Kilkeel reported that there was a skiff apparently in difficulties and in want of assistance about five miles off.
Within ten minutes of the message being...
Lilian
In the early morning of the 12th-13th July the cutter Lilian, of Arklow, stranded on the bar of Tacumshane, about six miles from Kilmore Quay. At low water two of the crew managed to get ashore and made for Kilmore for...
Mr. W. J. Oliver, Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland Branch
Mr. W. J. Oliver, who died on 4th March, had been Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland Branch for twenty-five years, and for nearly fifty years had been actively connected with the work of saving life from shipwreck. When he was appointed in...
Category: Obituaries
A Boat
The Life-boat Caroline Richardson was launched at 12.8 P.M. on the 14th September in response to a message from Prestatyn stating that a bathing-van attendant was drifting out to sea in an open boat, without oars, towards Rhyl. Immedi- ately...
Sorfareren
At about 6 A.M.
on llth November a message was received stating that a ship was dragging her anchors in the vicinity of Peterskerry, and required the Life-boat.
The crew of the Life-boat John A. Hay were...
The King of Norway and a Life-Boat Crew
IT will be within the recollection of our readers, that in May 1913 we had the pleasure of announcing that His Majesty the King of Norway had graciously given a monetary reward to be divided among the crew of the Skegness Lifeboat, for their...
Category: Awards
Progress
On the morning of the 23rd February the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched for her monthly engine trials, in bad weather. The local motor fishing boat Progress also put out, long-line fishing. By 10.20 A.M. a heavy gale was...
An Open Boat
Montrose, Angus.—On the afternoon of the 22nd May three officers from the R.A.F. Training School were thrown into the sea by the swamping of their open boat when they were trying to cross the bar at the entrance to the River Southesk. The...
Swift
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
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A mes- sage was received from the St. David's Coastguard on the morning of the 23rd June that a vessel was in distress near the Smalls Lighthouse. A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a smooth sea, but the weather was...