LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
December (1)
DECEMBER MEETING, LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. About 5.30 in the morning of the 30th July, 1941, a motor fishing vessel at sea, some four miles N.W. by N. from Lossiemouth, heard shouts for help, and cruising round picked up two airmen from a...
Category: Services
H.M.S. Leeds Castle, a Frigate
OCTOBER 10TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.50 in the morning the Southend coastguard reported a naval vessel aground near Kildonan Point. The naval authorities said that a tug and a frigate were going to her help, but at 11.10 they...
Twenty-Seven Hours on Service
FOR a service lasting 27 hours, as a result of which 19 people were saved from the motor yacht, Braemar, Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, junior, of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry. Two members of...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Stamps
WHETHER THEY DROP on to the doormat with a welcome letter, or arrive on the office desk with the next urgent problem, special issues of stamps make a cheerful start to any day.
The sea is a good and popular subject and in...
Category: Articles
Neepawa, Fishing Boat Audrey, Lighter Elmsdale, Schooner Westward
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, the barge Neepawa, of Rochester, was seen to be in distress a quarter of a mile east of the pier. A whole S.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
A New Royal Decoration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
A NOTIFICATION appeared in the Gazette of the 13th March last, stating that the Queen had been pleased, by warrant under the royal sign-manual, to institute a new decoration, to be styled the Albert Medal, to be awarded in cases where it...
Category: Articles
Bavington
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—During the night of the 27th April the ketch Bavington, of Newcastle, while on a voyage from Middlesborough to Dundee, was wrecked on the North Steel rocks. A fierce gale, with heavy rain, was blowing from the E.S.E....
Menai Packet
On the 11th November, at about 5 P.M., the smack Menai Packet, of Carnarvon, bound from Swansea to Newry, with coal, which was riding at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay, showed a signal of distress.
As the •wiad -was not...
None (1)
On the night of the 28th April the coastguard tele- phoned that two men had been ma- rooned at the foot of the cliffs at Capel Llockwyd, near South Stack. One of them had been rescued by lines from the top of the cliffs, but the other...
Two Meteor Jet Aeroplanes
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—About 1.0 in the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1951, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned that two Meteor jet aeroplanes had crashed into the cliffs at Bempton in a mist. Later, he said it was between the...