LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ann Young
YACHT ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.3 on the evening of the 1st April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile east of Quern buoy and was flying distress signals. There...
Violet Sinclair
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 8.55 a.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, the Violet Sinclair, had been seen three miles south west of Barmouth firing red flares. At 9.10 the life-boat The...
Sela
During a whole N.E. by N. gale on the 12th January an exciting scene was witnessed on the beach at North Deal. At about 7 o'clock flares were observed from a sinking vessel, which had been in col- lision and was then lying less than a...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1932
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1932 is now ready. It has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting which Mr.
Charles Dixon, R.I., has very kindly done for the Institution called " At the Height of the Storm." It...
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ON the 15th of May, 1951, the Flam- borough life-boat went out to save a.
boy, fallen over a cliff.
For a full account of this service, and list of rewards, see page 205..
Pallas of Shields
On the night of the 24th January, the brig Pallas, of Shields, stranded on the Sizewell Bank, in a strong gale from S.S.E., at daylight: being seen from the shore, the Thorpe life-boat proceeded to her, through a very high sea, and succeeded...
H.M.S. Leeds Castle, a Frigate
OCTOBER 10TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.50 in the morning the Southend coastguard reported a naval vessel aground near Kildonan Point. The naval authorities said that a tug and a frigate were going to her help, but at 11.10 they...
The Ex-Naval Drifter Bountiful
IN DANGER OF CAPSIZING Ramsgate, Kent.-—At 7.10 in the evening of the 5th of July, 1947, it was reported that a vessel had grounded on Quern Shoal. The tide was ebbing, the vessel was listing dangerously, and at 7.20 the motor life-boat...
Ocean Hound
Dnngeness, Kent. — At 7.45 in the evening of the 2nd of October, 1949, a resident of Lydd telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile west-north- west of Galloways. At eight o'clock the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in...
Volant and Queen
THURSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the W., veering to N.E., between 7 and 8 o'clock on the evening of the 21st March, the schooners Volant, of Wick, and Queen, of Inverness, which were both lying far out in the roadstead,...