LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Galtee More
At 6.20A.M.
on the 17th September the Life-boat Sir Arthur Blackwood was launched in response to signals of distress from a steamer. There was a thick fog at the time and on arriving on the scene of the casualty the...
Earl Russell, K.G., on Sailors' Orphans
AT the opening, on the 29th July last, of the new Asylum at Snaresbrook for Merchant Seamen's Orphans, EARL RUSSELL, K.G., H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made some appropriate remarks on the occasion.
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Arawatta
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze...
Dispatch
HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...
Shamrock
At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
Bagatelle
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on...
Queen
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—On the afternoon of the 30th August the lightkeeper observed a yacht apparently capsized, with the crew clinging to her side. He at once reported the circumstance to the coxswain of the Life-boat Coard William Squarey, who...
None (3)
FISHING COBLE FINDS BODY OF BOY Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 4th May, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a report that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Rosehearty bombing range. The police...
A Steamer (4)
FEBRUARY 28TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
The life-boat put out at the request of the naval authorities to search for survivors from a steamer, but on reaching the position given, she found naval vessels exploding depth...
Koningin Emma
On the 22nd Septem- ber, in response to a telephone message from Walton-on-the-Naze reporting that a large steamer was apparently ashore, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow put to sea. She spoke a trawler on her way out which reported that...