LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Edina
DEAL.—Signals were observed at about 9 P.M. on the 26th January in the direction of the Brake Sand, and the Gull Lightship also sent up rockets. A strong W.S.W. gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea. The crew of the Mary Somervilla...
Sailing Dinghies
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 12.50 p.m. on 21st September, 1969, the local sailing club requested assistance for the club's guard boats in a race in which several sailing dinghies had capsized in squally weather off Little Orme's...
Pagasitikos
— At 8.50 A.M.
on the 30th January, the coastguard reported that a large steamer was aground on the Newcome Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross put out at 9 A.M. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Longest Winter Service
THE Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica), Ltd., has once again awarded a case of rum to the life-boat crew which carried out the longest service during the winter months of 1955-56. The award has gone to the crew of the Arklow...
Category: Awards
Castlemaine
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 4th March, at about 1 A.M., intelligence was received that a ship had stranded in Ballybalbert Bay, three miles south of this Life-boat Station. The wind was blowing a hurricane from the S.E., with heavy sleet...
A Small Launch
FEBRUARY 15TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
The naval authorities reported to the life-boat station that at nine o’clock the previous evening a small launch had left the naval pier. Anxiety was felt for the safety of the officer...
Winifred and Onward
NOVEMBER 19TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A southerly gale was blowing, the sea was rough, and all the local fishing boats had put back to harbour except two, the motor fishing boats Winifred, of Wexford, and Onward, of Rosslare. Each...
Roma
Fleetwood, Lanes.—About 8.10 on the evening of the 28th of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told by the Formby coastguard that a small fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble and was in a dangerous posi- tion off Rossall...
Widgeon
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.27 in the evening of the 20th of October, 1951, the Mid-Barrow Lightvessel reported that the cabin cruiser Wid- geon, of Ramsgate, which had broken her rudder, was tied up astern of the lightvessel and in need of...
Centenary
The schooner Centenary, of Liverpool, bound from Coleraine to Glenarm, anchored in Skerries Boads at 8 A.M. on Saturday, the 30th September, during a very strong gale of wind. At 5.30 on the following evening she showed signals of distress...