LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Meadowfield
During a moder- ately thick fog in the early morning of the 10th December the s.s. Meadowfield, of Glasgow, stranded on the rocks about a quarter of a mile to the east of Red- car Pier. It was very dark at the time, all the lights on the...
The S.S. Cairnavon
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of the 4th of September.
1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the lighthouse-keeper at South Gare that a vessel had gone ashore in the River Tees....
Dona Myrto
Valentla, Co. Kerry.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the tanker Dona Myrto, of Panama, with a gravely ill man aboard, was expected to arrive off Yalentia at midnight. At...
Squibb
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 10.30 p.m. on I2th June, 1965, the coxswain was told that a vessel was burning red flares in Perwick Bay. The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden on temporary duty at the station set out in thick fog at 11.15 in a...
The S.S. Hamla
MAY 14TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.23 A.M. information was received through the coastguard from the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, that the S.S. Hamla, of London, was in distress about twenty miles from Selsey Bill in a south-easterly...
Snowdrop
MAY 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At nine o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel ashore at Scotstown Head.
The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat Julia...
Coxswain Hubert Distin
The sudden death has also taken place of Coxswain Hubert Distin, of the Salcombe life-boat, who was 52. He joined the life-boat crew under his coxswain father, Mr. Eddie Dustin, who is still alive..
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Moyallon
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 6.48 a.m. in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Moyallon, of Belfast, lying in St. Ives Bay, had signalled that an accident had occurred on board, and the motor life-boat...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on Sully Island by the rising tide. At 10.10 the life-boat Rachel and Mary...
Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 15th of September, 1953, the local fishing coble Isabella put to sea with a crew of three to work her crab pots near Brig buoy. The weather was bad, and at 10.50 it was decided to launch the...