LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sea Hornet Aircraft
St. David's, and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
At. 10.15 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1953, the St. David's coastguard asked if the St. David's life- boat would search for the pilot of a Sea Hornet aircraft...
Milborne
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 4.45 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that awireless distress message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Milborne, of Poole, stating that she had gone ashore eight miles...
Coxswain John Strachan of Peterhead
JOHN R. STRACHAN, a former coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat, died on the 1st of July at the age of 82.
Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the Institution for the rescue of the crew of nine of the trawler...
Category: Obituaries
Anna Liffey, of Dublin
Yacht given tow WHEN a man on the shore reported seeing a yacht driven aground, the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, lifeboat put out on May 4.
She was the lifeboat Dunleary II, on temporary duty at the station, and she slipped...
Pigganin
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.13 a.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white yacht was in difficulties with a broken rudder 15 miles off Anvil point. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 11.32 in a...
Esso Guildford
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DRIFTING TANKER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 9.45 a.m.
on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that an injured man on board the tanker Esso Guildford, 22 miles east of the...
A Dinghy and San Toy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an out- board motor had broken down off Penmon Point. At three o'clock the life-boat Field...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At noon on the 28th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ten-year-old boy had fallen from the top of a cliff a hundred and eighty feet high into the sea half a mile north- west of...
Constant Star
Fishing vessel aground AT 29 MINUTES PAST MIDNIGHT on Thursday, August 27, 1987, Moray Coastguard overheard the fishing vessel Constant Star inform Peterhead Harbour Control that she had run aground on the Skerry Rock and required immediate...
A Dinghy
Brothers found in failing light Brothers Aran and Marcus Farrell were fortunate to survive after the dinghy capsized in strong winds off Downderry and they tried to swim ashore in fading light. Looe lifeboat was alerted and quickly located...