LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Weymouth Lifeboat Tony Vandervell A 54Ft Arun Class. - View image in PDF

CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The barque Beaconsfield, of Brammen, laden with teak from Rangoon for Greenock, via Falmouth, stranded on the ridge inside North Bock in a strong S.S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 9th April. She fired signals of...

Padstow, Cornwall. At 10.45 on the night of the 12th of January, 1961, Lloyd's agent informed the honorarysecretary that the motor fishing vessel Moonlit Waters, which had an injured man on board, had asked for a doctor to be brought to...

CAISTER.—On the 28th March, a vessel was seen by her lights to be approaching the Barber Sand, and to lay fast on it about 7.45 P.M., when flares were burned immediately on board her. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat was forthwith launched, and...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone ashore on the outer reef at Scotston Head, and five minutes later the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...

WEXFORD. — Signals of distress were shown by the fishing-yawl Liberator, of Wexford, which had struck on the bar, there being an insufficient depth of water to enable her to cross, at 2.30 P.M. on the 23rd February. The No. 1 Life-boat...

In each of the first three years of the war the life-boat flag days have raised more than ever before. In 1942, 827 branches held these days and 541 collected more than ever before. 10,649,200 people contributed. That is 1,360,300 more than...

Lifeboatman put aboard yacht in gale force winds after skipper is taken ill The night-time rescue of two people aboard a yacht in gale force winds has earned Richard Hawkins, Coxswain/Mechanic of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat,...