LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Allegiance
WATCHET, SOMERSE TSHIRE.—Lights were observed to the northward of the harbour, during a strong wind and a heavy sea, early on the morning of the 24th January.
The W. It. G. Kingston Life-boat was launched at 7.30, proceeded...
Kate
The schooner Kate, of Peel, bound to Runcorn from Looe, with a crew of four and a cargo of china clay, was sheltering in Moelfre Roads on the 31st January when she caught fire. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain....
Comet
Barmouth, Merionethshire. — At 8.30 on the evening of the 28th of August, 1951, the police reported that the Tonfanau artillery camp had an- nounced a small fishing boat in distress.
There was one man in her,...
Susan
Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.55 on the evening of the 25th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the fishing boat Susan was burning flares off Cudden Point. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing with a choppy sea, and...
Middlesex Trader
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 4.30 on the morning of the 16th May, 1963, a message was received from the motor vessel Middlesex Trader of London, on passage from Montreal to Gdynia, stating that she was off...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, a telephone message was received from a man who lives on Herm Island asking if a doctor could be sent to the island as his wife was seriously ill. There was a fresh...
Letters
Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.
When he was...
Category: Correspondence
Brighton
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—On the 17th March, the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company was called out by signal guns.
She was launched at 5 P.M., and was towed to the north-east part of the Gunfleet Sands where the steamer...
Matilda Upton
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8.15 A.M. on the 28th November as a message had been received from the Coastguard that a barge was in distress some miles north of Cromer. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
Pussy Galore
At 3.58 p.m. on 12th August, 1969, the coastguard informed the staff coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties off Minster Boom. The lifeboat 44-001, on temporary duty at Sheerness, immediately slipped her moorings in a moderate south south...