LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maria W.
PILOT TAKEN TO DUTCH VESSEL IN NEAR GALE Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, 1962, the pilot at Portmadoc rang up the coxswain to say that a coaster had anchored outside the Portmadoc...
Fishing Yawls
ARBROATH.—While a strong gale was blowing from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow, on the 22nd January, twelve of the fishing yawls were returning, but it was feared they would be unable to enter the harbour. The Lifeboat William Souter...
Eureka
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the assistant motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that his son had taken a party out fishing in his boat Eureka at 7.30 in the morning to Llandulas and had not...
St. Peter Port Gold Medal
Since the June 1963 number of the Life-boat went to press the owners of the Johan Collett, the Norwegian motor vessel to whose assistance the St. Peter Port life-boat went on 5th February, have made a substantial donation to the...
Category: Awards
Virtue Petit
Ballycotton, Cork - At 2.50 a.m. on 3rd September, 1966, the Garda informed the coxswain that the trawler Virtue Petit, of Milford Haven, was steaming to Ballycotton with a seriously injured man on board. The life-boat Ethel Mary left her...
Johanner, of Dantzie
Eight days afterwards, the same valu- able Life-boat proceeded to the assistance of the ship St. Johanner, of Dantzic, which had gone on the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong wind from the south.
They found the sea was...
A Belfast Steamer
JULY 30TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. A Belfast steamer had been torpedoed, and her crew had got away in the ship’s boats, and one of them was missing, but while the life-boat was searching for her she got ashore at Clifton. Bay, Co. Galway. -...
Emily Raymond
At 10.30 A.M. on the 14th November, the brigantine Emily Raymond, of St. John's, N.B., then aground on the North Bar, Wexford Harbour, exhibited signals of distress. A gale was blowing from the N.W. at the time, with a very bad sea on....
White Rose
GORLESTON.—On the afternoon of the 15th April, the smack White Rose, of Yarmouth, whilst endeavouring to enter Tarmouth Harbour, inconsequence of a heavy ground swell, and a considerable sea on the bar, ran aground on it. A yawl which went...
Maud Smith Award
Second Coxswain Stephen Whittle and Assistant Mechanic John Power of Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, share the Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1964. The award is an annual one made under the...
Category: Awards