LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joass
Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 in the even- ing of the 24th of July, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned a message, received from a steamer through North Foreland Radio, that a sailing yacht wa's aground on Tongue Sands, four miles south-east of...
Helen Craig, of Belfast
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At about 4 P.M. on the 6th December a message was received that a steamer was in distress on the south side of the Ribble channel. She was the Helen Craig, of Belfast, bound for Preston, with a crew of...
City of Dublin
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the evening of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran aground on Arldow Main Bank, about five miles north of the light-vessel.
A...
Two Aeroplanes
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th April, 1938.
Two aeroplanes had been reported to have come down in the sea, but a search in which another plane joined revealed nothing. The honorary secretary of the station and district inspector...
Sangara
Penlee, Cornwall. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 25th of May, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a woman who was a passenger on board the m.v. Sangara of Liverpool, had had a haemorrhage and needed a doctor. The...
Sandrae
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 5.18 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down three miles south of St.
Catherine's and needed a tow. There was...
Coxswain Joseph Mercer
Coxswain Joseph Mercer of Walmer died on the 5th of January, 1961, at the age of 80. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1945, having previously served for eight years as second coxswain. He was award- ed the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries
A Yacht (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary there was a small yacht in difficulties off Sparrow Gap, Weybourne, and that there were three young men on...
Massabielle
FRENCH TRAWLER REFLOATED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.50 on the morning of the 14th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler was ashore six miles south of Tarbert harbour.
The...
Frida Blokzijl (1)
FIVE RESCUED FROM DUTCH COASTER On the 7th March, 1962, the Cloughey, Co. Down, life-boat rescued five men from the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl. A full account of this service, for which Coxswain Walter Semple was awarded the bronze medal...