LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welsh Prince
On the 17th October the steam trawler Welsh Prince, of and for North Shields, laden with fish, stranded on the rocks known as Limpet Hills, in foggy weather.
The wind was blowing from the S.E. and there was a heavy surf on...
Fiery X
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the police at Worthing had reported a small sailing dinghy in difficulties one mile off Goring. At 2.50 the...
Estafette
At daybreak on the 6th of November, the Life-boat was launched to the assistance of a ship on the West Gunfleet Sands, which was found to be the brigantine ISsta/ette, of Faversham, bound from the Tyne to Whitstable with coal. She was...
Jonadab
At 10 A.M. on the 12th May, during a heavy N.N.E.
gale, the fishing lugger Jonadab, of St.
Ives, was returning from the fishing ground. When trying to make the Harbour she struck and grounded on the ridge,...
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Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 6.50 p.m.
on 7th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two people were stranded on an isolated rock below the cliffs at Berth. At 6.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a...
Marcel
Bar mouth, Merionethshire. At 4.30 p.m. on I4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had grounded on the South Bank.
At 4.45 the life-boat The Chieftain was launched in a moderate...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of November, 1948, a telephone message was received from Vatersay Island asking for help to be sent for a maternity case. A south-east gale was blowing with a rough...
Feature: Launching Saves Lives
The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat
THE COASTGUARD informed New Quay honorary secretary at 1740 on July 30, 1974, that a small motor boat had been seen drifting towards the rocks about half a mile north of Trwyn-Croi, some four miles south of the station. Three minutes later...
Casualty Might Have Capsized
OUTSTANDING services in which courage and skilled seamanship were displayed by St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, life-boat personnel in the rescue of ten crew from a Swedish motor vessel under fierce weather conditions, have been recognised...
Category: Services