LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER VAUX has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., the deputy chief inspector.
Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a district inspector of...
Category: Articles
Star of Victory
Wick, Caithness-shire.—Shortly be- fore 9 A.M. on the 25th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the trawler Star of Victory, of Aberdeen, was ashore off Keiss in Sinclair Bay.
A light N.N.E. wind was blowing. The sea...
S.S. Moorwood
OCTOBER 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.50 in the morning, the naval authorities at Chatham telephoned the coxswain that the S.S. Moorwood had struck a wreck and was going to beach on the South- East Maplin Sands. She was a London...
The S.S. Pomerol, of Le Havre
MAY 3RD. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.35 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightship had reported a vessel aground on the North-East Goodwin Sands. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Ben Blanche
Mumbles, Glamorganshire, and Tenby , Pembrokeshire.—Some time after mid- night on the 18th-19th December the steamer Ben Blanche, of Ramsey, ran on the rocks to the west of Port Eynon Head. She was bqund from Dundoon, in Northern Ireland, to...
Gloriosa
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
The Launch of an Oil Rig, Sovereign Explorer
Severely injured NEW BRIGHTON'S Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blenwatch, manned by Helmsman Clifford Downing and Crew Members Francis Brereton and F.
Jones, had launched at 1100 on Tuesday December 6, 1983, and...
The S.S. Plasma, of Fraserburgh
OCTOBER 17TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
About 10.30 at night, in a thick fog, the engines of a vessel apparently aground half a mile to the eastward could be heard, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat Clarissa Langdon was...
Campbeltown
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE On the 19th January, 1942, the Campbeltown life-boat rescued forty-four of the crew of the motor vessel Mobeka, of Antwerp.
COXSWAIN JAMES THOMSON was awarded the silver...
Category: Medals
The S.S. Andalusia
HARTLEPOOL.—On the night of the 13th March, 1888, during a S.E. wind, sleet showers, and a very high sea, the s.s.
Andalusia, of Scarborough, ran ashore on Middleton beach. A steam-tag went to her assistance, but, owing to...