LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Ship Edward O'Brien
On the 13th February, the Life-boat John Ashlury put off to the assistance of the American ship Edward VBrien, of St. Thomas, U.S.A., which, while on a voyage from Mobile to Liver- pool, got on the Morpha Bychan Sand, Cardigan Bay, in a...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Bluebird II
Humber, Yorkshire - At 4.8 a.m.
on 16th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that red flares hadbeen sighted in the Haile Sand Fort area. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 4.21 in a fresh north westerly...
Bishop's Comment on the Life-Boat Service
THE Bishop of St. David's, the Right Reverend John Richards, gave an address from the bandstand at Aberyst- wyth on the 9th May, 1962, in which he said: "No organisation in the whole of our history has revealed more truly the spirit...
Category: Articles
A Barque
A telephone message was received from Bacton reporting a barque -with signals of distress flying, on the 27th March. A whole gale was blowing from N.E. by E., the sea was very heavy and the •weather very cold, with squalls of hail. The crew...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain George Tart of Dungeness. He was appointed coxswain in July 1947.
Since then Dungeness life-boats have been launched on service 97 times and have rescued 27 lives..
Category: Articles
The S.S. Spartan
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Hasborough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...
Category: Services
Peter Squires,
July 1998 Peter Squires, chairman of Christchurch branch. He was founder member of the branch in 1975 and during the past 23 years has held most offices within it. He retired in May 1997 due to ill health but still remained a member and gave...
Category: Obituaries
OTHER IRB LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on lages 120, 130, 134, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
Worsley
Longhope, Orkney. — Early on the morning of the 29th September, 1938, a wireless message was picked up by a coast watcher stating that a vessel was ashore at Brims Ness, Hoy. No signals of distress could be heard nor could any vessel be seen...