LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
On the 19th January, at 6 P.M., during heavy gale at "W.N.W., signals of distress were observed from a vessel at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat was thereupon launched, and on gaining the vessel it was ascertained that a boat which had...
Greyhound
ST. IVES, CORNWALL. — On the 29th March, during a storm and tremendous sea, accompanied by blinding showers of hail and snow, the ketch Greyhound, of Porthcawl, was observed running for the harbour. The. Life-boat Covent Garden was launched...
Escape
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 28th November, at about 1.50 A.M., the ketch Escape, of Goole, was observed making for Hartlepool, and showing signals of distress.
The sea being very high, the No. 3 Lifeboat John Clay Barlow put off and...
The S.S. Trafalgar
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 15th January, during a moderate gale from the W.N.W., accompanied by heavy snow showers, the British Workman Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and found the s.s. Trafalgar, of London, ashore...
Eliza Bell
HOLYHEAD.—A telegram was received at 8.50 A.M. on the 6th September, reporting a vessel in distress half a mile from the South Stack. The signal for the Lifeboat was at once fired, and in seven minutes the Thomas Fielden was launched, and...
Reaper
MOELFRE.—The schooner .Reaper, of Dublin, bound from. Wicklow for Garstoo, with a cargo of pit-wood, was caught in a gale from the S.W. on the morning of the 25th January, and was driven on the Dulas rocks. The Life-boat Star of Hope put off...
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St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor lifeboat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M.
on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock lighthouse was making flag and rocket signals, but, owing to the misty weather, the flags could not be read. A...
Sorata
Falmouth, Cornwall. — At 9.15 on the night of the 9th of September, 1951, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a yacht three miles south-east-by-south of St. Anthony Point was flying a flag and using only one of her sails. At 9.30 the...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the morning of the 24th January there was a very urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishere, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. The sea was very rough and the wind so strong that no boat...
Birthday Honours
HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1957 included: Knight Bachelor Air Commodore A. V. Harvey, C.B.E., M.P., a member of the Committee of...
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