LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jacob Langstrum
HARWICH.—On the 2nd December, the Life-boat Spring-well proceeded out about 10.30 P.M., in response to signals flredfrom the Sunk light-ship. On arriving at that light-ship, it was stated that signals had been made from the Kentish Knock....
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Ten minutes later it became clear that the fishing vessel had got some power to her propeller and she began to make slowly for harbour with the...
Category: Services
Thomas L. Devlin
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 5.52 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Thomas L. Devlin, of Granton, had gone ashore at North Carr. At 6.10 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Barnet
Penlee, Cornwall.—About 1.15 in the afternoon, on the 15th of July, 1950, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the trawler Barnet was drifting ashore about a mile east of Penzance lighthouse. She was engaged in the refloating operations...
La Morlaye
Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going aground just...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 4.7 in the after- noon, on the 28th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a report received from a holiday camp at Towyn that three men and boys in a rubber dinghy needed help off the camp. At 4.30 the life-boat...
A Small Rowing Boat
JUNE 9TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 8.15 in the evening a resident of Cwmyreglwys telephoned to the life-boat station that a small rowing boat, with a man and two women in it, was being blown out to sea. At nine...
Mr. H. M. Smardon, M.B.E., of Torbay
MR. HENRY MADICK SMARDON, of Torbay, who died at Brixham on the 28th of October of last year, was a noted figure in the town, where he was affectionately known as H.M.S. Brixham. He was a retired school- master and a man of many...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats (7)
WHITBY.—The fishing-fleet were returning on the afternoon of the 6th February, but during their absence the sea on the bar had greatly increased.
The first two boats which arrived crossed with safety; but the third one was...
Accidents to Life-Boats
A RECENT accident to one of our English fleet of Life-boats has once more enlisted the sympathies of the British people, and called forth their admiration of the humanity, courage, and endurance displayed by our sea-coast boatmen in their en...
Category: Articles