LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Melrose Abbey
MARCH 28TH. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.1 A.M. the Belhelvie coastguard reported that a vessel was ashoretwo or three miles north of Belhelvie, near the mouth of the Ythan. A strong E. gale was blowing, with a very...
The St. Govans Light-vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.
Govans Light-vessel as...
Sirdar
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.——At 7.30 in the night of the 23rd of October, 1949, a resident of Criccieth telephoned that he could see an unusual light a.
mile off Criccieth. The life-boat station made further enquiries...
The Tongue Lightvessel
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...
A Sailboard
Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...
The Earl Beaconsfield, of Glasgow
WEXFORD.—At about 8th Feb. 1884, telegrams were received stating that a large fourmast ship was ashore on the Pollock Rocks n Fethard Bay. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the south and the sea was very heavy. Horses were procured as...
(Below) Port Isaac's New D Class Ilb Was Dedicated on Easter Sunday By the Vicar of Port Isaac the Reverend F J W Maddock She Was the Gift of Cornwall and Is
(Below) Port Isaac's new D Class ILB was dedicated on Easter Sunday by the Vicar of Port Isaac, The Reverend F. J. W. Maddock. She was the gift of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Round Tables and was presented by their area chairman. John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M. E. Johnson
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th ^ uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M. E.
Johnson, of Dublin, were rescued, and from the 21st to 23rd December, the life-boat rendered salvage services to the...
Lines on a Gallant Rescue By a Shore-Boat
HALF a league, half a league, Half a league seaward, In a wild storm of death Sail'd the five heroes.
Onward, the Quay Brigade! Straight for the wreck they made: In a wild storm of Death Sail'd the five...
Category: Poetry
Inigo
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.45 p.m. on 2ist July, 1966, it was seen that the yacht Inigo off the north end of the South Falls Head required assistance. There was a gale from the north with a very rough sea.
The tide was flooding....