LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henrietta (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Hermes of Lune
Dragging in storm A YACHT DRAGGING her anchor in North Mouth, Out Skerries, 20 miles north east of Lerwick lifeboat station, in Shetland, was reported to the deputy launching authority by Lerwick Coastguard at 0051 on Tuesday September21,...
The Former Royal Air Force Rescue Launch Golden Gremlin
OLD RESCUE LAUNCH RESCUED Torbay, Devon.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1947, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Torquay police that a resident had seen a small vessel of a naval...
A Motor Punt
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At eleven in the morning of the 13th of March, 1952, a man left Cork for Ballycotton in a motor punt. He had not arrived by eight o'clock that night. The keepers of the Power Head Lighthouse, eight miles west of...
None (2)
Exmouth, Devon.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1956.
the coastguard reported that a man who could not swim was stranded on a sandbank near the River Otter.
The life-boat Maria Noble was...
Wild Duck
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard passed on a message from the Norwegian steamer Manx that a yacht was in difficulties about one mile west of the West Sunk buoy. The life-boat...
Margaret Herd
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 10.5 on the night of the 8th of April, 1958, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Margaret Herd, of Fraserburgh, was ashore at Point of Ham in the Island of Bressay, near the...
Ellendale
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.45 on the morning of the 29th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares three hundred yards off Porth Nant Quarry.
At 8.10 the life-boat Charles...
The S.S. Corfield
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corfield, of London, needed a doctor to attend a sick man.
As no other boat...
Rosemary
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 3.11 a.m. on 3rd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Portpatrick radio station that the motor fishing vessel Rosemary was in difficulties and needed...