LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Large Open Boat
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 9th December the wind suddenly became squally, increasing to a gale from the W.
off the land. A large open boat, manned by two men and a boy, and having but one broken oar on board, was swept...
Hanseat
GERMAN BOAT'S APPEAL Torbay, Devon. At 2 a.m. on 3rd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a radio message received at Niton radio station from the German coastal vessel Hanseat stated that one of the Hanseat's...
Rosebud
The fishing- smack Rosebud, of Dublin, when making for the harbour about 11 A.M. on the 7th March, was driven on the south wall close to the bar. It was blowing a moderate gale from S.W., and the vessel commenced to bump heavily and for some...
Snowflake
Stromness, Orkneys. At ten o'clock on the night of the 10th of December, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that there was a boat ashore in Hoy Sound. Ten minutes later the life-boat Archibald and Alex- ander M....
Ada
A. severe gale from the S. with, a very heavy sea was experienced on the 13th October. At about 7 P.M. signals of distress were observed in the direction of the Scroby Sand. No steam-tug was available, and, in the opinion of many of those...
Foxglove and Faith Star
Whitby, Yorkshire. — Shortly after nine o'clock on the morning of the 29th of November, 1950, while the Whitby fishing fleet was at sea, it was reported that a strong northerly gale had developed, causing a heavy swell.
Marguerite
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
Rescue In Violent Seas
COXSWAIN Dermot Walsh of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat has been awarded a silver medal and six of the crew members accorded the Institution's thanks on vellum, for courageous rescue operations oif the west coast of Ireland.
Category: Services
Magnolia
BARMOUTH, NORTH WALES.-—At 10.25 M. on Sunday, the 14th of February, the Jories-GM Life-boat put off to the assistance of the ship Magnolia, of Yarmouth, N.S., bound from Norfolk, Virginia, for Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton, which had...
A Fishing Coble
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 29th January a gale from N.N.W. sprung up, accompanied by a rough sea, and the cobles which had gone out fishing returned home. One of the boats, however, had not come in, and as it was evident she would encounter...