LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ken
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the 5th September two men and two women, visitors to Polruan, put out from Polruan in the hired motor boat Ken to go for a trip to the beach on the west side of Atlantic Bay. When the motor boat neared the beach a heavy...
The Sailing Barge Davenport
Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard warned the coxswain that a flare had been seen to the E.N.E. The coxswain went to the look out, and after some time saw a red flare. A S.E., veering to S., gale was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Vassilis
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1955, the Coast Life-saving Service at Came rang- up to say that a steamer had gone aground at Collough Rock near Carnesore Point and had sig- nalled for help....
Harry Richardson
Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...
Three Rowing Boats and a Motor Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....
Luncheon Clubs
LUNCHEON CLUBS associated with the Life-boat Service have become increasingly popular in recent years in Yorkshire. The first ladies' life-boat luncheon club was established at Leeds, and there are now similar clubs in Bradford,...
Category: Articles
The Motor Cabin Cruiser Aloha
DRIFTING FOR TWO DAYS Margate, Kent.—In the morning of the 28th of August, 1947, information came from the British Steamer Hill- crest Park through the North Foreland Radio and the coastguard that the motor cabin cruiser Aloha, of Lowestoft,...
Hervor Eratt
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.-—At 3.15 in the morning of the 28th of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor ship Hervor Eratt, of Gothen- burg, of 1500 tons, bound for Sweden with coke, had reported that she was ashore at...
The S.S. Seaford
Margate, Kent. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1959, the watchman of the local pilot cutter informed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Seaford of London, asking for a doctor, as the...
The S.S. Valga
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Valga of Lenin- grad had asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to attend to a seaman who had fallen down...