LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Almeria
SHEERING BADLY Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.20 p.m. on 3rd May, 1964, the assistant secretary asked the second coxswain, in the absence of the coxswain, to launch the life-boat The Lilly Wainwright to go to the assistance of a motor...
From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
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Gloucester Packet
On the 19th February, the smack Gloucester Packet, of Cardigan, was observed in the roadstead with signals of distress flying. The Sir Edward Perrott life-boat at once put off, and succeeded in bringing safely ashore the vessel's crew of...
Lizzie, of London
On the 19th Sept. at 2 A.M. the Palmerston was launched, on information reaching this station of a wreck on the Brierdean Kocfcs; and m a heavy sea and very dark night the rescue of the 12 persons on board the wrecked vessel, the screw-...
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Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 10.50 on the night of the 25th of May, 1954, the Lytham police rang up to say that the pile beacon, known as Peet's Light, three and a quarter miles west of Lytham pier in the estuary of the River...
Success
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCAHDINESHIRE. On the 2nd March the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched at 11 A.M. and went to the assistance of the fishingboat Success which was in danger while making for the harbour in a S.E. breeze and a rough sea. The...
Forthcoming Articles
IN the next number of The Lifeboat will appear accounts of the naming of the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and of the visit of the Margate Motor Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling of a memorial to...
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Coastguard Shield
Mr. Anthony Grant, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry, presented the Coastguard Shield for the most meritorious wreck service of 1970/71 to the Peterhead C.R.C. in July. The award was made for the rescue...
Category: Awards
Marina Benvenuto
ABKLOW, IBELANB,—At 3 P.M. on the 28th December the Italian barque Marina Benvemito, bound from Liverpool to Cardiff in ballast, was observed ashore on the -Arklow bank. The wind was blowing from the 8.W., the weather was hazy, and the sea...
Y Draig
On the morning of the 2nd April the yacht Y Draig, of Portmadoc, left Aberyst- wyth harbour for a cruise in the bay.
There were four persons on board.
The wind was blowing fresh from the E.N.E. By 11 A.M...