LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Hughes
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Miss Hughes, of and from Carnarvon, laden with slate for London, showed signals of distress, as she was dragging her anchors and drifting towards the rocks at Nevin Point, in a moderate gale from N.'W. and...
Albert
TRAMORE, COUNTY WATERFORD.—The brigantine Albert, of Cork, bound from Newport for Youghal with a cargo of coal, stranded at Tramore in a strong S.W.
breeze, thick weather and rough sea, on the morning of the 25th August....
None (1)
SWIMMER WAS WEARY At 11.38 a.m. on nth December, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard to seaward of the western undercliff by a local doctor. Visibility was very poor due to fog. At 11.46 the...
A Sailing Dinghy
At 6.15 p.m. on 4th June, 1970, a member of the crew of the Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, IRB saw a sailing dinghy with one man on board in difficulties three quarters of a mile off shore. The IRB was launched at 6.20.
There...
An Aeroplane (43)
JULY 1 0TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea five miles north of Selsey Bill, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d..
Gifts In Kind
YEAR IN, YEAR OUT, the RNLI receives from a number of companies free supplies of goods for use in lifeboats; gifts which are greatly appreciated both for their intrinsic value and for the underlying continuity of support which they exemplify...
Category: Donations
Ellen Harrison
At about 5.30 A.M. on the 31st March flares were ob- served from Moelfre Island. A strong S.W. gale prevailed at the time, with rough sea, and the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched. On arriving at the north side of the Island...
A French Trawler
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...
Mary Ann Mandel
On the afternoon of the 16th November a N.E. gale sprang up, bringing with it a heavy sea, and caused the schooner Mary Ann Mandel, of Barrow, which was riding off Kings- downe, to get into a dangerous position.
She...
An Aeroplane (39)
JULY 1 1TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the coastguard saw a British aeroplane brought down by the enemy off Selsey Bill. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, but there was only a slight sea. The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched...