LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Defender
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.48 on the evening of the 26th of January, 1957, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Defender, of Liverpool, had stranded on the revetment wall near the south end of the Formby channel. The...
Audentia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 11.18 on the night of the 10th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground off St.
Combs, but at 11.50 she was seen to be under way. At midnight she...
Valeria, of Cardiff
CLOVELLY.—During a whole gale from the N.W., accompanied by a tremendous sea, on the 15th October, the steamer Valeria, of Cardiff, bound from Briton Ferry for Portland with a cargo of coal, hoisted signals of distress. The GrahamHughes Life...
True Friend
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 17th February information was received that a steam drifter was aground on the Doom Bar, and as soon as it was seen that she had not refloated on the flood-tide the Life-boat Arab was dispatched to...
Protect Me II
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — During a moderate N. by E. gale with a heavy sea and rain, on the 13th August, information was received from the coastguard that the fishing vessel Protect Me II was signalling for help about three and a half miles...
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Howth, Co. Dublin - At 5.52 p.m. on I3th March, 1966, the coxswain's wife informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff. The Dublin Fire Brigade had been called out but had been unable to rescue him. At 6.15 the...
C.W.S. Progress
Torbay, South Devon.—At 4.17 or* the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel C.W.S. Progress had reported that she had picked up a man in an exhausted state from a dinghy which had been...
Sea Lion
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 10.20 on the night of the 10th of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen off Manghold Head. At 10.45 the life- boat Thomas Corbett was launched in a moderate sea....
French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
Category: Awards
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On the 5th and 7th of February, 1960, the Barra Island, Hebrides, life- boat was launched to take patients to South Uist. On the first occasion a woman gave birth to a child on board the life-boat. These events are re- corded on pages 435-6....