LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Hope Star
DECEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 put out at 9 in the morning, in a N.W. gale, with a very rough sea, and rescued nine men of the crew of 44 of the S.S. Hope Star, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which had...
Ability
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel east of Milford Docks was drag- ging her anchors and sounding distress signals on her siren. At 3.50 the life- boat Elizabeth...
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Category: Articles
Coastguards Honoured
The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Douglas Jay, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year 1965-66 to the Walton-on-Naze Coastguard Rescue Company for their rescue of nine men by breeches buoy from the stranded motor...
Category: Awards
Sally
Dover, Kent. At 8.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help one mile west of Dover. At 8.45 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a severe south- westerly...
British Oak
On the 10th Octo- ber the crew of six of the barge British Oak, of Rochester, were rescued by the motor life-boat Prudential.—Rewards, Thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, together with mone- tary rewards amounting to...
Tarka
DAMAGED FUEL-PIPE Exmouth, Devon. At 9.10 p.m. on 9th July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen south of Straight Point. There was a gentle west-north-westerly breeze with a choppy sea. It was two...
Royal Exchange
Aith, Shetlands. — At 11.25 on the night of the 24th of October, 1953, a crofter telephoned the coxswain that a fishing boat was making distress signals at The Rona, off Aith Voe.
Five minutes after midnight the life- boat...
From Ascension Island
THE following letter comes from the manager of the station of the Eastern Telegraph Company, on that remote spot in the South Atlantic, Ascension Island : " As a result of the receipt of your booklet, The Story of the Life-boat, I had...
Category: Correspondence
A Steamer (18)
MAY 31ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. A steamer had been reported ashore and in need of help at Newfoundland Bay, twelve miles east of Old Head Lighthouse, but she got off and went on her way without the life-boat’s help. - Rewards, £9...