LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capella, of the Faroe Islands
AUGUST 28TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. At 9.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a fishing vessel, about six miles south-east-by-east of St. Martin’s Head, not under control. A fresh westerly gale was blowing and the sea was very...
Martha
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT WALTON AND FRINTON JANUARY 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. In the early morning flares were seen burning about half a mile north of the pier at Walton, close to the beach. Asouth-easterly gale was blowing, with...
A Motor Boat
Appledore, Devon. At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the second coxswain that two boys were on a sandbank on the river Taw after being cut off by the tide. The life-boat Violet Armstrong left her moorings...
Sunya
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard learnt that a dinghy had capsized about a mile off shore at Gorton and that her crew were clinging to her. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing...
True Vine
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—Early on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1955, the local fishing boat True Vine put out with a crew of four. She had not returned by mid-day, and at 12.35, half an hour before high water, the life- boat W. Ross...
Sirocco
Salcombe, South Devon. At 8.50 p.m. on 29th August, 1965, it was learnt that the lighthouse keeper at Start Point had reported a small yacht was burning flares at Peartree Point. The life-boat The Baltic Exchange left her moorings at 8.59 in...
Wesley
On the 8th March, soon after daylight, it was reported that a ketch was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The weather up to this time had been hazy. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford and a tug to go out to...
Hille Oldendorff
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 11.20 a.m. on 30th March, 1966, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Hille Oldendorff, of Lubeck, which was about nine miles north west of the Longships lighthouse,...
Brothers
The Life-boat was also launched at 10 A.M. on the 3rd May, and landed thecrew, consisting of two men, of the smack Brothers, of Carnarvon, which was in distress in Porthdinllaen Bay, having dragged her anchors and lost her boat which had...
Peggy II, and Jean and Barbara
DECEMBER 19TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to put out, as the fishing cobles were still at sea.
The sea was slight, but the strong northeasterly breeze was...