LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Garside, of Bridgewater
— On the 26th September, the ketch Garside, of Bridge- water, was wrecked during a gale of wind off Pembrey. The life-boat City of Bath was at once launched, and saved 2 out of 3 of the crew. The mate of the vessel had previously endeavoured...
Capt E. G. Newton
With the appointment of Capt. F. H. Edwards as honorary secretary of the Falmouth branch, Falmouth remembers the long association with the Institution —some 15 years—of the late honorary secretary, Capt. E. G. Newton, who took a personal...
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Amelia, of Torquay
The Lowestoft life-boat also went out on the 3rd March, in reply- to signals of distress during a heavy N.N.W. gale, and brought safely ashore from the schooner Anna Louisa, of Rye, the crew of 8 men of the schooner Amelia, of Torquay,...
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 17th March, during an E. gale, a very heavy sea was running across the mouth of the harbour, and a number of the fishing-boats were lying off, waiting to get in when the tide flowed. As the sea was breaking heavily it was thought wise...
Water Lily
On the 27th May, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.N.E., with a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen making for the Cockle Gat. Her sails were blowing about, and when the weather cleared a flag was observed in the...
C. S. Parnell
Wicklow. — On the evening of the 17th of May, 1950, the local fishing boat C. S. Parnell, with a crew of four, left for the fishing ground five miles south of Wicklow. The weather grew bad, a fresh north-easterly wind causing a rough sea....
Mitchell
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—-At 1.50 early on the morning of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch had left Fishguard the evening before and had not returned.
The life-boat White Star was...
Taranaki
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...
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FLARES LIT FOR CLIFF SEARCH PARTY Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.36 on the night of the 15th August, 1962, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boy was missing on the cliffs at Durdle Door and said that the police had asked if the...
Ocean Star
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.28 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1958, the coxswain intercepted a mes- sage from the trawler Ocean Star of Lerwick that she was in broken water near the rocks not far from Peterhead harbour and needed...