LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fifty Medals for Gallantry
On the 23rd January, 1939, seven members of the crew of eight of the St. Ives life-boat were lost when the boat capsized while on service to an unknown vessel.
COXSWAIN THOMAS COCKING was posthumously awarded the bronze...
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Dear reader
I’ve just experienced almost every kind of weather in one week. No, I’ve not been globe trotting, just holidaying in Cornwall. Waking variously to hot sunshine, chilly pea-souper, or lashing hail, I knew that whatever I chose to do, I’d meet...
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Ellen, of Liverpool
On the 13th November, the schooner Ellen, of Li- verpool, laden with freestone, on entering the River Dee, struck on the bar at its mouth, in a strong breeze from the S.S.E.
Information of the same having been con- veyed...
The Austrian Brig Zorniza, of Lucine
About -9.30 P.M., on the 7th December, the St, Nicholas lightship was observed throwing .up rockets, and a light was seen as if from a vessel in distress on the Scroby Sands. The Yarmouth large life-boat was immediately launched, and...
Elizabeth Kloosterboer
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—On the 1st March, at about 3 A.M., a light was seen for a short time, apparently from a vessel off Rhosneigir. The crew of the Life-boat Thomas Lingham assembled, and the boat was got out, but the light disappeared, and...
Whitwell
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA., ESSEX.—On the 12th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W. to W. by S., accompanied by a rough sea, notice was received from the pier-head that a vessel was stranded on Shoebury Sands about five miles...
Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...
A Challenge to Branches
The Record of Campbeltown, Southend and Machrihanish (Argyllshire).IT will be remembered that in the last issue of The Lifeboat we published a table showing the length of service of j the Committees of a number of the j Institution's...
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Caledonia
At 3.45 A.M.
on the 13th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat was called by the Coastguard, who stated that they thought a vessel was ashore. The Coxswain at once pro- ceeded to the beach, but he was unable to distinguish...
Julia
Cox- swain Kelly of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 1 on the 23rd March saw a schooner miss stays and get into a dangerous position near the rocks beneath the lime kilns at Port St. Mary.
A strong southerly breeze was...