LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sylph
APPLEDORE, DEVONSHIRE. — While the ketch Sylph, of Bideford, was bound for that port with a cargo of coal on the 15th April, she stranded on the South Tail and showed signals of distress. In response, the Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald was...
Trustful III
On the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the Aberdeen No. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs went to the help of the local fishing boat, Trustful III. In rough and confused seas a tow rope was made fast to the fishing boat, and the life-boat...
Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
The S.S. Sylvafield
DOCTOR TO A SCALDED MAN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of February 12th, 1947, a firm of shipping agents in Belfast tele- phoned requesting the help of the life- boat to take a doctor out to a vessel at anchor in Carrick...
Christiana
CARDIGAN.—On the 3rd May, the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Christiana, of Cardigan, were safely landed by the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare, their vessel having stranded on the West side of Cardigan bar, in a moderate...
Birthday Honours
THE list of honours bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1955 was: K.C.B.
Vice-Admiral A. K. Scott-Moncrieff, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of...
Category: Awards
Two Large Fishing Yawls
A strong N.N.W. gale was experienced at Filey on the 23rd July, and at about 5 A.M.
the alarm was given that two of the large fishing yawls in the bay were dragging their anchors, and drifting southward towards Speeton...
Life-Boat House, Wembley
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, will again be open this year. Life-boat workers will be doing the Institution a real service if they will bring this to the notice of any friends who are visiting London during the...
Category: Articles
Sea Clipper
Ramsgate, Kent. At 2.37 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht in tow of the German steamer Helios, which was twenty-four miles east of Ramsgate, needed the help of a life-boat....
The Sand Boats Wisbech, Lintie and Kinfauns
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, a director of the Tay Sand Co., Ltd., telephoned to say that two sand boats were dredging above the Tay Bridge and were now heavily laden.
A...