LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Susie
During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.
and within a few minutes the...
A Small Fishing Boat
On the evening of the 4th January a S.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea and rain, and as a small fishing boat, with one man on board, had not returned, it was thought advisable to send a life-boat out to search. The No. 1 motor life-boat,...
Emanuele Accame
DROGHEDA.—The barque Emanuele Accame, of Genoa, bound from Bremerhaven for Swansea, in ballast, was riding at anchor in a dangerous position, about two miles N. of the Boyne bar, having lost three her four masts, on the 13th...
Camilla
SKEGNESS.—The brigantine Camilla, of Laurvig, being seen to take the ground on the Boghead Sands on the evening of the 2ud April, and a few minutes afterwards burn flare-up lights, the Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was launched and proceeded...
Khojak
Plymouth, Devon - At 5.44 a.m. on 16th September, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British vessel Chartsman was standing by the yacht Khojak 13 miles off Eddystone lighthouse.
The life-boat Thomas...
Valentia Life-Boat
A collective letter of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-beat Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., has been sent to Coxswain John Sugrue and the crew of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat for their efforts on...
Category: Services
Clipper
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Orlock in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Clipper of Rotterdam was aground on the Maidens off Larne. At 6.10 the life-boat Sir...
Dream
The Lizard, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of July, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a motor yacht appeared to be in difficul- ties off Mullion Cove, and he tried without success to obtain the services of a local...
Secret
Walmer, Kent. At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 21st of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the crew of the motor boat Secret of Deal were making a signal by waving an oar and a flag a mile off Deal pier. At...
A Launch (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.55 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a small half-decked launch appeared to be in difficulties off Sully...