LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stella, of Waterford
APRIL 19TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 11.15 at night the civic guard telephoned that flares for help had been seen. A light south-east wind was blowing. The sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the...
Jeune Hortense
PENZANCE. — The brigantine Jeune Hortense, of Nantes, bound from Brest for Fowey, in ballast, dragged her anchors during a heavy ground sea on the 17th May, and drove ashore on the Eastern Green just under the Long Rock. The Dora Life-boat...
Rescue In Ribble Estuary
THE THANKS of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Harold Parkinson and Mr. Kenneth Smith, of Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire, for a shore boat service in which they saved a yacht and two...
Category: Services
Gladys
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.23 p.m. on 2ist April, 1965, Southend Airport informed the coastguard that an aircraft was circling over a trawler which was firing distress signals. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...
San Marino
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.8 p.m. on 2ist July, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a fishing vessel was in danger of going on to the rocks at Poolbeg.
The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 6.20 in a...
The Dragon Class Yacht Miranda
YACHT AGROUND At 1.40 p.m. on 2ist May, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties one mile east of Llanbedrog Point and about three miles south west of the station. The IRB was launched at 1.45 in a strong south westerly wind and a rough...
Viola and the Annie Fyfe
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—On the 12th February, while the Girvan fishing fleet were off Corsewell, a gale suddenly sprang up from S.E., which afterwards veered to S. and increased in violence.
The boats promptly made for home, and...
Matador
At 6.15 P.M. on the 19th March a telephone message was received from Kentish Knock Light- vessel reporting that a barque, appar- ently on the Kentish Knock Sands, was burning flares for assistance. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil...
Andri
Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the evening of the 25th January the steam trawler Andri, of Eskifjordur, Iceland, carrying a crew of twenty-five, and bound with fish for Grimsby, ran ashore at Kelder Steel, Kettleness. A moderate S.E....
Samaritano
On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...