LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex)
Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex).
ON the morning of 26th September last a three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong N.N.E. gale...
Category: Services
Margaret
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 9.50 on the night of the 15th of September, 1949, the coastguard reported that a motor fishing boat was in distress off Bloody Bridge and her crew shouting for help. The life-boat William and Laura was launched at...
A Rowing Boat (4)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. About two in the afternoon, four boys put out duck-shooting in a rowing boat.
By seven o’clock they had not returned. The night was very dark, and a strong southwesterly breeze was...
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Norman
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the afternoon of the 12th of August, 1952, the row- ing boat Norman, of Moelfre, with a party of five visitors aboard, got out of control, was swept round Moelfre Island and carried out to sea. At 3.40 the life-boat G....
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Douse
BROADSTAIRS. — Flares having been blown close to the North Foreland, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Bradford, was launched at 6.45 A.M. on the 13th January, and found the brigantine Douse, of and for South Shields, from Poole, in ballast,...
Liberator
On the 13th of May, 1953, the Valentia life-boat found the French trawler Liberator, of Camaret, south of the Blasket Islands after an eight- hour search in a very rough sea. The coxswain took the life-boat close to the stern of the trawler...
HM Torpedo Boat Destroyers The Cherwell and Ettrick
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 3rd September, 1961, the police informed the coxswain that a man had fallen down the cliffs at Bempton, three miles north of Flam- borough Head. The life-boat Friendly Forester was...