LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marie Leonhardt
The German steamer Marie Leonhardt, of Hamburg, whilst bound from Scotland to Genoa with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, during a strong E.S.E.
gale and a very heavy sea, on the 17th January. Signals of...
A Steamer (30)
MAY 28TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; ILFRACOMBE, DEVON ; LYNMOUTH, DEVON ; AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. A large steamer had caught fire and had sunk after an explosion, but the crew were rescued by patrol vessels. - Rewards : Barry Dock,...
A Minesweeper (5)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A minesweeper had been blown up by a mine, and the life-boat put out.
The sea was rough, and an air raid was in progress. Bombs fell near the life-boat. She searched for some hours...
Battered to Pieces on the Sands
Battered To Pieces on the Sands. - View image in PDF
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Tia Maria III
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.2 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties close inshore in Font-y-Gary bay. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris, on evaluation trials at the station...
the Victory and the Merlin
Stromness, Orkneys. At 2.20 p.m.
on 29th December, 1965, the honorary secretary expressed his concern about two local fishing vessels, the Victory and the Merlin, whose arrival from the fishing grounds was overdue. The life...
Favourite
PORT EYNON.—The Life-boat A Daughter's Offering put off at 12.45 P.M. on the 17th November, while a moderate gale was blowing from the W.N.W., and saved a man from the boat belonging to the ketch Favourite, of Milford. In returning to...
Sorfareren
At about 6 A.M.
on llth November a message was received stating that a ship was dragging her anchors in the vicinity of Peterskerry, and required the Life-boat.
The crew of the Life-boat John A. Hay were...
Magna
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 5.45 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1959, the honorary secretary heard from Wick radio station that there was a badly injured seaman aboard the motor vessel Magna of Helsingborg, Sweden, who needed medical...
Miss Evans
.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland rescued four hands from the schooner Miss^Evans, of Aberystwith, during a strong W.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 19th February. The vessel was in the outer roads when her anchor commenced to...