LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Telegraph, of Port Issac
On the 8th De- cember, the sloop Telegraph, of Port Isaac, was seen stranded on the Doom Bar Sands.
While a strong gale was blowing from the N., with heavy squalls, the " City of Bristol" life-boat, the Albert...
A Life-Boat Rescue
"KEEP a sharp look-out, lads," Was our coxswain's warning cry, As he scanned the horizon seawards, Where breakers were rolling" high.
" It's a wild night, I fear, lads; We'll have stiff work...
Category: Poetry
Sonny Boy and Gowan Bank
Early on the 13th November a strong S.S.E. gale sprang up, with a very heavy sea. As all the small fishing boats were out, the life-boat coxswain and the coastguard kept watch. All boats came in except the Sonny Boy, and at 7.30 A.M. she was...
Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The steam trawler Tranio, of Milford Haven, ran on the rocks in Killeany Bay, during foggy weather on the morning of the 4th March, 1938. She was bound for the fishing grounds and had a crew of eleven on board. A...
Coxswain J. T. Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, Scillies
Coxswain James Thomas Lethbridge, of St. Mary's, Scillies, died on 1st January, at the age of seventy-one.
He had spent twenty-eight years as an officer of the life-boat, being appointed bowman in 1897, second coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
Tony
On the evening of the 2nd March it was learned that the local motor fishing boat Tony had not come back from sea with the rest of the boats. Her owner was the life- boat coxswain, and he and two other men were on board. The coastguard...
Maybird
The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with a tender in tow, put out at 3.35 P.M. on the 25th March, as the life-boat watch- man had seen a small vessel go ashore about half a mile S.W. of the fort. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
A Firefly Aeroplane (2)
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Susan Vittery
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 6th of April, 1953, the radio operator of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse on shore received a wireless message from the lighthouse that a ship's boat had been seen near the rock....
Actuality
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On Friday the 3rd of February, 1950, the motor vessel Actuality of London, on passage from Drogheda to Sunderland, entered Peterhead Bay to shelter from bad weather. Being short of food, she sent a boat ashore in...