LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss Hughes
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Miss Hughes, of and from Carnarvon, laden with slate for London, showed signals of distress, as she was dragging her anchors and drifting towards the rocks at Nevin Point, in a moderate gale from N.'W. and...
Katharine
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather...
Four Brothers
At 8.30 A.M.
on the 29th January it was reported to the Coxswain that a vessel was flying signals of distress about four miles N. W.
of Bull Bay. The Life-boat James Gullen was launched in a very heavy sea...
Kingfisher
At 11.30 A.M. on llth March, during a moderate E.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, it was decided to launch the Motor Life- boat Herbert Joy II. as two motor cobles were out crab fishing. The Life-boat found one of the cobles—the Kingfisher, of...
Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., D.L., J.P.
The committee of management also regret the death of another colleague, Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., D.L., J.P., an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who died on 26th April, at the age of...
Category: Obituaries
A Fishing Vessel
Dover, Kent. At 11.30 on the morning of the 16th September, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of Dover.
At 11.45 the life-boat...
H.M.S. Cygnet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 3.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized one mile south of Sizewell, and at 3.50 the No. 1 life-boat, Abdy Beauclerk,...
Snow White
Salcombe, Devon.—About 6.55 in the evening of the 18th of May, 1949, the Prawle Point coastguard telephoned that a small vessel 200 yards west of the point was flying her ensign upside down, and the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was...
Mary-Brigitte
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 7th of February, 1959, the coxswain of the Valentia life-boat was informed that the French trawler Mary-Brigitte of Concarneau was sinking three miles south of the...