LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Haweswater
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The Lifeboat John Robert was teunched at 12.30 P.M. on the 7ih April, the coxswain having observed from his house a barque apparently ashore on Crosafarnogue Point.
The vessel, which had grounded in...
The S.S. Gangeren
The No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched during a moderate N.E. gale and heavy break- ing sea, on the llth January, to the assistance of the s.s. Gangeren, of Brevik, which stranded near the North Pier.
Owing to the heavy...
Renown
The sprit-sail barge Renoivn, of London, whilst bound ' for Ipswich, on the 30th December, grounded on the West Gunfleet Sands.
[ As a moderate S.W. gale was blowing, and the sea was heavy, the Motor Life- boat Albert...
Lady Ann
At 5 A.M. on the 6th December the Coastguard reported that a steamer was making flares for assistance to the north of the Light- house. The crew of the Life-boat were immediately assembled and the boat launched. The steamer proved to be the...
The S.S. Hawthorn
At 1.15 in the afternoon of 5th January, when a whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with rain and a heavy sea, the Coxswain noticed that the s.s. Hawthorn, of Liverpool, which was at anchor in Ramsey Bay, was signalling that a doctor was wanted...
The Dredger Foremost 18
St. Mary's, Isle of Scilly.—At about 9.30 A.M. on the 22nd December, 1938, it was learned that a dredger was in difficulties near the Spanish Ledges and wanted a pilot. A N.E. gale was blowing, with sleet and snow showers, and the sea...
Mayflower
The No. 1 motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was launched at 10.41 A.M. on the 9th July, as a telephone message had been received from the coastguard that a small sailing boat was drifting towards Pentire Head. A moderate...
Boy's Own, Excelsior, Irene, Premier II & Victory
At 4 A.M. on the 15th November several fishing boats were at sea. The wind was blowing fresh from the S.E., the sea was making, and several of the boats were running for shelter. The life-boat crew stood by until, at seven o'clock, the...
The S.S. Wisbech
— On the night of the 14th April the coastguard reported red flares some distance north- east of Blyth. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea.
The motor life-boat Joseph Adlam was launched at 10.40 P.M., and...
Two Aeroplanes
AEROPLANES IN COLLISION Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.55 in the afternoon of the llth of June, 1947, the St. Merryn Royal Naval Air Station reported that two aeroplanes had collided in mid-air off Holywell Bay and asked the life-boat to help...