LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helen Macgregor
The schooner Helen Macgregor, of Dublin, whilst bound from Scotland to Arklow, was lying at anchor off Cahore Point, on the 20th August. Towards evening the •wind increased to a fresh gale with a very rough and heavy sea, and at 8.30 P.M.,...
West Coaster
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — On the 9th October, 1939, a W. by S. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of. London, which was in distress in the...
Moorlands
Montrose, Angus.—At 10.10 on the night of the 25th of December, 1952, the Usan coastguard telephoned that a vessel five miles east-south-east of Montrose had wirelessed a distress signal, and at 10.35 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched...
Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. (1)
COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...
Category: Articles
Syren
The ketch Syren of Beaumaris, whilst bound from Pwllheli to Runcorn stranded near the Gimblet Rock on the 8th March after dragging her anchors. Immedi- ately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the Life-boat Margaret Platt...
Princess Margaret Names Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No 38) Margate
ON WEDNESDAY November 21, 1979, 22 months after January storms dramatically isolated Margate's lifeboathouse by destroying the town's pier on which it stood, the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38) was...
Category: Inaugurations
Wesley
On the 8th March, soon after daylight, it was reported that a ketch was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The weather up to this time had been hazy. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford and a tug to go out to...
Two Rafts
FEBRUARY 8TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. A northerly gale was blowing, with high confused seas and storms of snow and sleet when, at 2.30 in the afternoon, the Wick coastguard rang up the life-boat station to say that two miles to seaward of...
Herring Boats
At about 6 P.M. on the 25th August several large herring boats and a yacht were to be seen making for port, and two miles N.E. of the pier head the yacht was dismasted. A nasty sea was running and it was blowing very fresh from the north—at...
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INJURED BOY RESCUED AFTER FALL FROM CLIFF Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the llth March, 1962, the coxswain received a message from the Abersoch fire brigade that a boy had fallen over the cliff at Cilan Head, and that...